all of which tim sandefur covers in this important new book. our forum today will discuss this issue in some detail, both pro and con. i will introduce each of our speakers before he speaks, starting with tim, who will talk for about 20 to 25 minutes about the book. we'll then have comments from our two other guests for 10 to 15 minutes each. and then brief comment from tim before we open it up to the q&a from you in the audience and for lunch upstairs in the george m. yeager conference center. tim sandefur is vice president for litigation at the goldwater institute in phoenix, arizona. as i write in the blurb for this new book, with this, his fourth magnificent book plus countless articles, speeches and legal briefs, tim sandefur has emerged as one of america's most important up-and-coming political and legal theorists. a graduate of hillsdale college, chapman university school of law, tim served for 15 years as a litigator at the pacific legal foundation before joining gold water. at plf he won important victories for economic liberty and sev