Answer: Continental Congress
Explanation:
The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States, on November 15, 1777, but the states did not ratify them until March 1, 1781. The Articles created a loose confederation of sovereign states and a weak central government, leaving most of the power with the state governments. Once peace removed the rationale of wartime necessity the weaknesses of the 1777 Articles of Confederation became increasingly apparent. Divisions among the states and even local rebellions threatened to destroy the fruits of the Revolution. Nationalists, led by James Madison, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Wilson, almost immediately began working toward strengthening the federal government. They turned a series of regional commercial conferences into a national constitutional convention at Philadelphia in 1787.
I think 3 can be a good match for that statement....
A-- Initiative.
Referendums have to do with only addressing a single, specific issue.
Federalist systems have to do with having a representative head to the government.
Supremacy clauses have to do with which laws are superior to others in case of conflict. (Federal law is superior, by the way.)
Research ethics are general rules that are followed when doing experiments to insure that no permanent harm comes to the test subjects or anybody else as a result of the research. This is perhaps even more important in sociology because the test subjects are human.
