[rockrr]

*sigh*

We didn’t “secede” from Great Britain - we openly rebelled against their authority. The colonials did so for just cause and only as a last resort. There is no legitimate comparison between the patriots of 1776 and the insurrectionists of 1861.

[Fiji Hill]

"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another..."

To me, dissolving "the political bands" sounds like seceding.

[DiogenesLamp]

We didn’t “secede” from Great Britain - we openly rebelled against their authority.

Like I said, it is utterly POINTLESS to debate with this sort of intellectual dishonesty.

[CodeToad]

“insurrectionists of 1861.”

According to you the North fought the war to free the slaves, illegally waging war against the southern States, instead of passing a Constitutional amendment and changing the law. The northern States were the insurrectionists.