Should the framers of the constitution have allowed the people to vote directly for ratification of the constitution

What would lead a historian to consider two events to have a relationship of correlation rather than causation?

Two gymnastics teams are intense rivals. the first team has started recruiting new gymnasts from different cities and even foreign countires in an effort to build a stronger team. after learning this, the secondteam begins its own recruitment campaign to find better gymnasts. over a period of months, each team recruits dozens of players, each time trying to find a better recruit than its rivals most recent addition. which idea from the cold war is most similar to this scenario

The ideas contained in the declaration of independence was most influenced by a. absolute monarchy b. the federal system c. anti-authoritarianism d. the social contract theory