Definition: In this task, you're given a statement and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine the neutral choice based on your inference from the statement and your commonsense knowledge. The neutral choice is a sentence that neither agrees nor disagrees with the statement. Indicate your answer as '1', '2', or '3', corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence. If sentence X agrees with sentence Y, one's correctness follows from the other one. If sentence X disagrees with sentence Y, they can not be correct at the same time.
Input: Statement: As early as the 1780s, however, the pendulum had swung back, and many Americans looked to the courts to check the excesses of their legislators. Choices: 1. A lot of Americans had issues with their legislators in the 1700s.  2. Americans have been relying on the courts since the 1780s.  3. Americans have only recently started relying on the courts to settle their disputes. 

1