Federalist society were hosting todays forum. I want to thank the Federalist Society, dean righter and julie nix who are with us today, for their assistance in organizing this forum. I also want to welcome those who are seeing us through cspan and our Live Streaming audience as well. Were here to discuss an important new, an important subject, the Permission Society, the title of a new book from encounter books by the Goldwater Institutes tim sandefur. Subtitled, how the ruling class turns our freedoms into privileges and what we can do about it. This book documents the many ways, especially since the progressive era, that the presumption of liberty, the freedom at the heart of our founding principles and documents, has been extinguished in favor after presumption for government, with individuals having to obtain permission from government officials before being able to act. Property owners have long experienced this reversal of course. Today they often find before they can make any ch