Consider these lines: "By calling upon state legislatures to hold ratification conventions to approve the Constitution, the framers avoided asking the legislators to approve a document that would require them to give up a degree of their own power. The men attending the ratification conventions would be delegates elected by their neighbors to represent their interests." What can be inferred about why conventions, not legislatures, voted on ratification?

1. The quoted lines say the framers avoided asking legislators to approve a document that would reduce the legislators' own power. 2. A person asked to approve limits on their own power has an obvious motive to say no. 3. Elected convention delegates carried no such conflict, since the limits fell on others, not on them. 4. So the inference is that the framers routed around a built-in conflict of interest. 5. Option C is contradicted by the surrounding account, which treats the convention route as the unusual choice, not a requirement. _Source: OpenStax American Government 3e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 2 "The Constitution and Its Origins", section 2.4 The Ratification of the Constitution_