By Anna Von Reitz
It really does not matter for the purposes of the Federal Union that Texas came in as a "republic" or a "territory" or a "colony" either --- Texas agreed to act as a State of the Federal Union.
Being a "State" is a capacity --- for example, you might agree to act in the capacity of an elector, or in the capacity of a wife, or in the capacity of employee in a book store.
In the same way the Body Politic of Texas can act as an independent republic, a State Republic, a State, or a State of State, or a Council of County Governments or, or, or.
Having agreed, Texas joined the Union and has been part of the Union as a member-State ever since. If it joined some other Union it might be called a "region" or a "borough" or a "principality".
So in its own internal affairs, Texas functions as a republic--- as all the State Republics are supposed to (though largely don't) and with respect to its relationship with the other States functions as a State of the Federal Union.
