Wrong.
The Declaration of Independence was done in the name of all the people of the American colonies, and the war for independence was prosecuted by all, as a body.
The Articles of Confederation AND PERPETUAL UNION, and thereafter the Constitution of the United States, established us as one nation, under God.
“We the People of the United States...”
“The Declaration of Independence was done in the name of all the people of the American colonies, and the war for independence was prosecuted by all, as a body.”
Of course, because until that war was over, we hadn’t yet won our sovereignty from Britain.
“The Articles of Confederation AND PERPETUAL UNION, and thereafter the Constitution of the United States, established us as one nation, under God.”
No, the Constitution formed a federal union, not a nation-state. A federal union, by definition, is composed of independent and sovereign states, and that is confirmed by the 10th amendment.
The British Union was PERPETUAL too. Even more so than ours, because the foundation of their existence did not depend on an asserted God given to leave a larger Union.
Ours did.
This means that the Southern states had a stronger claim to leave than did the Colonies. Leaving was an accepted part of our foundational principles, not those of the British Union.
This statement in the preamble was originally We the people of the States of.... and was changed by the committee on style to make it shorter. This one change made all the difference between the belief of the States versus the people/Federal government.