The states and the congress. If a constitutional amendment is going to be ratified, first it has to get votes of support from 2/3 of both the house of representatives and the senate, after which it goes on voting in individual states, and if 3/4 of states ratify it then it becomes an official amendment of the constitution.
The Legislative branch consists of two parties: the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Missionaries were the first group from the United States to settle in Hawaii. They were followed by the businessmen. Then, the military came.
American Protestant missionaries lead by Reverend Amos Starr Cooke settled in Hawaii on 1837. He set up a school to educate future monarchs. He became the unofficial adviser to the King, one of his previous students. Cooke influenced the king's decision to devise a land reform that allows businessmen to buy land from the locals and become sugarcane planters.
Hawaii's location is ideal for strategic warfare, thus, the military settled there.
In “Of our Spiritual Strivings” from the book The Souls of Black Folk, DuBois points out the racial discrimination that African Americans underwent and the suffering that resulted from it. He also mentions double consciousness, which is the individual sensation of feeling as if ones identity is divided into several parts making it hard to have a sense of identity. These experiences are still relevant as there is still racial prejudice such as in the Criminal Justice system
The Manhattan Project was the secret government initiative that lead to the creation of the first atomic bomb in US history. This program was a result of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of money and the collaboration of individuals all over the country.
Over the course of the Manhattan Project, 120,000 people were involved in the creation of this atomic bomb. This include scientists and engineers who worked together on the specifics of the bomb and the impact it would have. This success can also be contributed to the business owners and workers who helped build the technology and equipment needed to make this bomb/test it during the 1940's.
Lastly, the military worked with all of these different groups, especially the universities (like including Columbia and University of California at Berkley) who were conducting research for the government.