“The people who were traitors to the principles upon which *THIS* nation was founded were the ones who denied the right of Independence to others.”
Yes, the Confederates were the traitors who denied the U.S. Constitution, re-enslaved freemen who had already gained their freedom, denied the right of suffrage to Southern citizens in order to traitorously usurp the Republican form of government mandated by the U.S. Constitution, and committed manifold other capital offenses.
“The Declaration of Independence says that people have a God given right to leave a government which no longer suits their interests. It is the basis upon which we justified our secession from the United Kingdom. “
Yes, and the Confederate illegally and immorally refused to abide by the provisions of the U.S. Constitution which governed how to modify the government or in the alternative how to lawfully secede from the Union of the United States in the same manner by which a state acceded to the union of the United States. In their contempt for the rule of law and the Constitution, the wannabe Confederates continue to deny the U.S. Constitution and refuse to acknowledge the obligations and rights provided for in the Constitution to change government lawfully and even to secede lawfully.
“The same Principle should have been respected by the US Government in 1861.”
It is the Confederates and their wannabes who are the parties who are refusing to respect the Principle, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the U.S. Constitution. So long as they continue to respect these foundations of the Republic, they need to emigrate and join the other Confederate traitors to the Constitution.
The Declaration of Independence is the only thing which gives authority to the US Constitution. The US constitution is the daughter of the Declaration, and therefore stands in an inferior position in relation to it.
The Right of Independence is given by God, the US Constitution was written by a committee of men and is an act of men.
Acts of men do not trump Rights given by God.