[Bubba Ho-Tep]

You seem to be intent on demonstrating that the men of 1776 acted constitutionally and the men of 1861 did not. I don’t see it. To my mind, they were both revolutionists. Whether they were justified or not in their revolution was dependent not on whether it was constitutional, since a constitutional revolution is a contradiction in terms, but on the goals of that revolution.

Exactly.

[rockrr]

But at least the colonialists were honest enough to admit that they were rebelling against the authority of the crown.