text:  and he's on the war committee. And that whole relationship is really the birth of everything to follow. As a member of Congress, he's witnessing firsthand some of the problems the government is having under the Articles of Confederation. So why does he think that a national convention could help to solve these problems? Well, part of it is when we recall how all this comes into play, we have the Declaration of Independence in 1776 that called for a constitution,