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Although many books address the who, what, and why of the Constitution’s framing, not one explains the how of calling the Constitutional Convention—how a convention that seemed patently forbidden by the Articles of Confederation, and appeared so impossible to Alexander Hamilton that he quit Congress in despair of ever seeing one called, could have gathered enough support over a few months to be attended by every state but one.   Resolving that conundrum is the aim of Rescuing the Republic. Andrew Browning sets the stage with an explanation of the fatal flaws in the Articles of Confederation that were becoming apparent in the early years of American independence. He then explains how Madison—with the support of Washington and late assistance from Hamilton—built on the surprising success of the Mount Vernon Conference to arrange the widely misunderstood Annapolis Convention. 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