In general, Congress fulfilled and continued the work of the Constitutional Convention in the sense that it allowed the document to be continuously altered by passing amendments.
<em><u>Initiative process</u></em><em><u> is a process in which citizens can put a proposed new law directly on the ballot in the next election by collecting voters' signatures on a petition. It is a form of direct democracy.</u></em>
Referendum on the other hand allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by the legislature.
Recall is a procedure that permits voters to remove public officials from office before the next election.
Since the 13th amendment banned slavery, plantation owners in the south would have been outraged since they lost all of their minimal cost labor force.