The correct answer is D.
The Articles of the constitution was a pact made by the 13 founding states of the United States of America that served as the country's initial legal framework. The Second Continental Congress approved it on November 15, 1777, following lengthy discussion (between July 1776 and November 1777), and it was then forwarded to the states for ratification. On March 1, 1781, the Articles of Confederation became operative after being ratified by every state. Establishing and upholding the states' independence and sovereignty was one of the Articles' guiding principles. Only those powers that the former colonies had acknowledged as being the property of the king and parliament were granted to the feeble central authority constituted by the Articles.