The Declaration of Independence says differently.
“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, ...”
- Declaration of Independence
That doesn’t change the fact that The American Revolution was an open and violent rebellion to the authority of the crown.