Only if you mean the ability to arbitrate between the entities of the States and NOT the physical States themselves.
If that's the case, you are correct and the error was mine. I should have said 3.
“Only if you mean the ability to arbitrate between the entities of the States and NOT the physical States themselves.”
Yes, I meant the states as political entities. I’m not sure how the physical territory of the states are supposed to have relations with eachother.