Which of the following describes a power that allows states to check changes to the national government?

states may tax their own residents.
states hold and manage elections for federal officials.
states have the right to make their own laws.
states must ratify changes to the u. s. constitution.

i believe the answer is a

we pointed them north: recollections of a cowpuncher by e.c. “teddy blue” abbott tells us of the history of nomad cowboys in north america. as the   frontiers began moving west, trails of cowboys of the 1870s and ’80s drove herds of cattle from texas to the northern ranges and railheads, and then rode back south to do it again. they gradually pushed   native americans out of their lands, until in 1889 the   government transferred white   colonists the indian land.