Challenge: A Confederal US State

The challenge here is to have the United States admit to its Union a polity that is itself a union of sovereign states.
 
The challenge here is to have the United States admit to its Union a polity that is itself a union of sovereign states.

On the far outskirts of plausible, but I suppose that a group of sovereign Indian tribes in the US Southwest could join together as a state and seek admission into the Union (thus recognizing the overarching sovereignty of the US government).
 
Idk... maybe if Texas somehow survived and thrived for a little bit longer and somehow managed to expand somewhat but then began to face difficulties and then joined the Union, Texas and New Mexico united? Or if the Rio Grande Republic somehow joined?
 
Wouldnt the soverign republics under the new state just become defacto (maybe with a little bit more sway within the state) counties? The U.S. isnt going to allow a state to enter that's going to have more political power than another, though a tweak to the structure under the state as long as it was a republican (system not party) form of government might be allowed. How much sovereignty are the republics going to have under the state government AND the federal government?
 
Really, there's nothing preventing any existing state from adopting a federal structure internally. All it means is that the state is made up of organic constituents that are not alterable beyond certain narrow limits by the state's government.

Cities and counties are all creatures of the state government, and can be modified without their consent by the state government. A federal state would simply be made up of republics that were presumably larger and more influential than a county would be, and have their own elected governments, administrations and constitutions.
 
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