There would be no federal government. The parties of the contract come together to make the terms of the contract design the contract, and ultimately sign the contract. In our Constitutional Republic, the states on the parties of the contract. There are some who teach that the constitution is an agreement between the people and the federal government. That is not true. It cant be true. We can show that to be false by one simple fact. How was the constitution ratified . Was it ratified by popular vote . You cannot siren the contract into legal being until the contract is you dont exist until the contract is already signed. So the only party that existed that could be the creators of the constitution are the states. In the federal government did not exist until the constitution was ratified, which makes sense. So, states are the creators of the constitution. The constitution created the federal government, therefore the states are the creators of the federal government. So july 2, 1776 to, what, september, 1783. 1787. When the constitution was finally ratified. Question had the articles of confederation in between there, but they proved to be faulty on several aspects. When you read the notes to the ratification and the corporations they had with each other you learned that they greatest difficult at the, the great e problem with the original articles of confederation was that the federal government was operating outside of its boundaries and didnt have enough direction. The great problem we had at that time was the federal government was making inequitable treats where one city or one set of states had to provide all of the resources and then a separate state got all the benefits. So, the states having just now formed this union with this understanding its supposed to be mutually beneficial, who are having to foot the entire bill were like, wait a minute, this is not why we signed up for this, to transfer our wealth to another state. So were not we are not going to comply with this treaty. Which is a really big deal. Because not only is a treaty an agreement, its a contract with a Foreign Government. So, our states who are refusing to comply with foreign treaties and they were righteously resist because the treaties were inequitable for the member offered the state, were making a Foreign Government mad for breaking the terms of the crashing plus the states that were supposed to get the benefit were mad at the states that wouldnt pay, so, we have a problem now in the airlifts confederation, our confederation is about to split and we just got started, because were about to go to war between the states on conflict, going to war with a Foreign Government, which is why we brought together the new convention to create our constitution, which is why our new constitution is called the more perfect union. So, when we dissolve the articles of confederation, theres no more federal government. And the only government thatgovernments that exist are the states, and there would have never been a new federal government had not our current constitution been ratified. From your book, not only living, breathing document, reclaiming our constitution, published in 2011, you write a common refrain these days is that we fell asleep. What that means is our ignorance of the history that brought us our american liberty allowed tyranny to sneak up on us. However, that was not the case for our congress. When we take the big picture and i mean the full scope of the history of our american Constitutional Republic, we have to realize that it didnt begin in 1787. That liberty was not invented in 1776. And tyranny was not invented by george iii. And when i teach a class called the genealogy of the constitutional, which is covered in the not only living breathing document book, we take the 700 years of history that give us our declaration of independence, our constitution and our bill of rights, and it is this history that proves to us that our constitution is built upon timetested principles, axiomatic truths. Theyre not inventions. Because when you read when you know history, you know there are five documents written. Their called the british liberty charter. Win those five documents, you find every single aspect of our declaration of independence, our constitution, and our bill of rights. Not even just in principles. Sometimes in the very language themselves. Just taken from the documents and supplanted. We didnt invent anything in our foundational documents. We inherited everything. And it is that history that proves to us that our founders actually this is what may surprise some people, surprises everybody who attends the class or readded the book there is nothing now in america. This its not a brave new world. Theres a popular belief that the constitution is irrelevant, inapplicable to today because our founders couldnt know what were possibly seeing today. But when you study that history, you see that we are just repeating the same scenarios over and over again throughout time, even today. The same stories. If the same people with the same interaction of government just, just different faces and better technology, history always repeats, and i think the theme of that not only living breathing document book, is those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat its mistakes. You mentioned these classes. I teach all over the country. We teach is this year number seven for us. Who is us . My husband its a family endeavor so theres three of us, my husband, jc, and my son, our son, colton who has been traveling with us and teaching for seven years now. Hes 11. So he is quite the traveled young man. Hes been to almost every state any union to include alaska, but not hawaii yet. Hes praying for that one. And he has been to four countries. And so what i do is i tried around, we teach on average over 260 classes every year in over 22 states. And we dont solicited for classes. People email us and contact us and say, come and teach us. I teach high school, middle school students, college students, we teach civics groups, business groups,. Well teach anybody, and what people find, when we teach these classes, is that some conceived falsies have to fall it. Teaching the fallacies. Teaching the constitution doesnt label me in a certain group. What people find is that it doesnt matter on what political side you stand. The constitution is relevant to everyone. I taught a National Conference of physicians and surgeons and it was very exciting hearing theirs comments afterwards. These are not people that you would thick generally carrying around their pocket constitution, you know, and they were so excited about what they learned, and i think thats what we find when we travel around and teach, is that this is an empowering message for all people. An inspirational message that overcomes a feeling of powerlessness. Do you charge . We have mo speaking fees. Oh due you pay for it . Its a lot of travel. It is. We have airplane tickets, rental cars, food, hotels, we have never had a speaking fee, never required anybody to compensate us for our travel or our expenses. We do this as a mission on our part. Were nor independently wealthy. Weve never received a grant from anyone. We work soley off private donations, 20, 30 here or there and the sale of the books, and were not out to get rich. This is our family is a family of missionaries. So when were not teaching the constitution of the United States, we are missionaries to have the servants heart, and i the best way ive heard somebody describe what we do here is were missionaries to the people of the United States in defense of the constitution. From your web site and your bio, i was raided a democrat. The only thing more evil than satan was a republican in my home. Was an environmental list, an ardent environmentalist, some of my best friends were members of green peace and i supportedded the World Wildlife fund and peta. And i was a vegetarian by ideology, not for health reasons, for almost 15 years. I believed in Global Warming and defended it vigorously. I believed in the big bang and openly criticized those who believed in creationism as ignorant and misled. I supported abortion, and often openly condemned others for being pro life. I have argued with abortion protesters on the street corners, called them names im not proud of. I was not only not a christian but i practiced many other religions; i was bitter against god and figured only ignorant, weak people needed faith. Was too intelligent to tao ode too educated. Ive come a long way. What happened . I didnt have an epiphany moment. Was as transformation process for me. I began you start with the beginning, in my household there was nothing more evil than a republican, satan himself. It was a very politically active household. My parents my father and his father and all his brothers are union people, and so our political ideology came from that unionborn, unionfed, and when we die were unionfed. That kind of thing. So there was no other choice, and in that paradigm there was also a very, very strong work ethic. So, if you want to be the right person you need to be, you need to be somebody who is willing to work hard and put in the time and put in the effort. My dad is one of the hardest working people that i know. He was able to instill that work ethic in me. So when it was time for know good to college, i put myself through school, student loans, jobs, and i worked really, really hard. I graduated with a degree in biochemistry, and i didnt have any granddaughter i didnt grad wade with delusions of grandure. I realized i had to start off at the bottom and work my way up. In doing so i started noticing the paycheck that there are these taxes coming out of my paycheck. Being raided i was taught that paying taxes is your fair share, to take care of the elderly, to take care of the orphans to take care of the disabled, people who cant take care of themselves. But if im looking around and noticing, my Community Around me, im noticing that the same people who werent working when i was in college, are still not working. Not because they cant but because they choose and make choices not to. And i didnt think that is the definition of fair, because if taxes were about fairness, then the people who work hard, who have sacrificed to put themes in a better place, would have to pay less taxes. And so i started i dont have any problem with charity. Then when i had family i began to realize that its not the government wiping noses and cleaning up sick and the late night. Its not the government who is administering the discipline and its not the government that is really ultimately concerned on what kind of person my child would become. Thats a responsibility that falls on me and my husband. It takes a village to raise a child, it takes a family, and when i looked around in the evidence in my community, the children that were being raised by the government in the system were not children who were respectful, who were as a whole not respectful of their surroundings and respectful of what they had and of the community. You have the individuals, right . But for the most part, they didnt have the values that my family wanted to have. So i realized its our responsibility. And then when i gave my life to christ, you see, my whole life was im a seeker of knowledge. Thats just who i am. I always felt an emptiness inside of me, and so i tried to fill it with lots of stuff. Like i said ive practiced all kinded of religions to fill that kind of emptiness in me, and it wasnt until i had a meeting, a spiritual meeting with christ, that i realized that only he could fill that emptiness, and in learning in that, i realized, finally, the proper role of government in the lives of the people. And so its been a long process for me, and in that process, ive come to understand that a lot of things that i held to be truth and wisdom were just as much faith as the path i have and maybe even less faith than i have in im are so more faith to belief in those thing than i do to believe in god now. Biochemistry, undergreat at Blackburn College which is were . Illinois. Jd from the university of florida. How did those two connect . With a long period insure in the middle, actually. I joined the military in between there, and i was a russian linguist in the u. S. Army, when i was in the military i broke my hip so i had to i was medically discharged for serviceconnected injury, and i had to have a total hip replacement, so, i have a hip that is 16 years old this may, and when i graduated when i got out of the military, where i met my husband, we moved back to his home town, and the opportunities to be a biochemist in the little rural area we were livingy, were very few and far between. Had to drive over an hour, and thats not like commuting in d. C. Where you sit in traffic for an hour. Mean youre really driving for an hour. And it just became very, very hard to keep up that, and i really didnt feel like that was what i wanted to do anymore. So to fill in the spaces, because im not a person who sits still well, dont just sit, i cant stay at home and do nothing itch had to go out find a job. Started working for a local attorney as a receptionist, secretary, just for something to do. And i noticed that i was doing a lot of his legal writing, and i was thinking, man, im doing all this work, hes collecting the paycheck. This is something i could probably do. And i discussed it with my husband, i was 31 at the time, and i was really sort of intimidated to go back to school at that time, and i said to my husband, is this something this is going to be a huge sacrifice for the family. Well have once again college debt, im not going to be able to work fulltime, have to be away from home, and he was my husband has always been so supportive. His favorite saying is, well do it or die trying. Well give it a shot. I talked to my mom about and it i said, mom, i dont know. Im so old now. Why go back to school . She says, how long does it tike good to install i said three years, she said, well in three years youll be three years older anyway, why not fill it with law school anyway . And so i did. And it was through the encouragement of a friend of ours, who was actually a childhood mentor for my son, he is he was chief of state attorney in our community, tom coleman. He also taught my husband karate in his teenaged years. I sat down and talked to him about this, and it was his encouragement finally that gave me the confidence to go. And when i went to law school, i knew what wanted to do right then and there. I was going to be a prosecutor. I was going to work for tom. Be the guy who wears the white hat and fights the bad guys, and i never had a Job Interview while i was in college. In law school. I never had any ambition to go work for the big law firms. I knew i was going and what i needed to do. So we got it done. I was actually given special permission by the Florida Bar Association in and the university of florida to become a certified legal intern to work for our state Attorneys Office before any of my classmates, because were a small rural community, ands the attorney then, jerry blair, wrote a letter to u. S. Saying we could use her help. And i actually had tried over ten jury trials before i even had my bar license, and it was such an amazing experience for me, and i think that is much to the chagrin of my husband, where my brain started changing. I had a very influential professor, named Joseph Little itch think he is retired now, too. He was my constitutional law teacher, and which is done in the first semester at law school, and he said were not here to teach you the law. Thats impossible. Were here to teach you how to think like lawyers. And then it snapped for me. I dont need to memorize all this stuff i can look up in books. I need to learn how to think, how to make this happen. It was the skill of being a linguist and learning document translation and learning to think like a lawyer, that made understanding the documents that the designers of the Constitutional Republic wrote, and learning how to apply them to the constitution as its supposed to operate. Lets get our viewers involved. This is book tv on cspan 2, and we invite an author to come on and talk about his or her book and their lives. This month its author, activist, constitutional activist, Krisanne Hall. She began publishing books in 2011, foye not a lifing, bringing document came out that year. Bedtime stories for buddy patriots came out. Liberty first, the path to restoring america came out the next were. Essential stories for junior patriots . 2013. The most recent book is sovereign duty which came out in 2014 and theres a new Childrens Book out as well,. Two, actually. And too much going on here at the table. Well get to those in a minute. Want to invite you participate in our program this afternoon. 202 is the area code if you want to dial in and talk. 7488200, east and central time zone. 2027488201 for those in the mountain and pacific time seasons. Now, if you cant get through on the phone lines but want to make a comment, we have social media ways of getting hold of us and that includes twitter, book tv, leave a comment there or join our Facebook Page at facebook. Com booktv. Youll see. Krisanne hall at the top. Well begin taking your calls in a few minutes. How did you decide you wanted to write a book . Thats a really great question, because i cant even remember actually sitting down and thinking, well, lets write a book. When i look back over the last seven years, it all seems a bit surreal to me because this is not the path i chose. It was it feels like a path that was chosen for me, that we simply said, yes, well do this. And so its funny, i think i would ask my husband if he remembers, but i saw a need. I think one of the things that i do i moon i think every individual has a gift, a unique gift in what they do. And one of the things i do is i connect dots. I am a dot connector. Im able to look at a picture and see how it comes together, and then able to explain that in a way that people understand. Instudying the constitution, not just simply what i learned in law school, because i learned as i started studying that we dont teach the constitution in law school. What we teach is constitutional law, which is has unfortunately become very different from the constitution. Our constitutional law classes teach that our judges and lawyers know more about the constitution than the men who wrote it, and that after all it was written over 200 years ago, so it cant possibly be relevant today. So when i start reading what the design ired of the constitution wrote and the history that b