Hubris and I don’t see any reflection of your claim contained herein...
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/texan02.asp
(Read your bio. I do appreciate your service to our country, though.)
Hubris? Moi?? Nah. See my bio. LOL
(Reference: the Texas-American Annexation Treaty of 1848)
The formal controversy about the legality of the annexation of Texas stems from the fact that Congress approved the annexation of Texas as a territory with a simple majority vote approval instead of annexing the land by Treaty, as was done with Native American lands
http://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/texas-annexation