it opens up a lot of questions Tick.
Add to the render to Caesar, and passages about God placing leaders, how does one tackle our forefathers declaring war when they were not physically attacked per se.
That’s been discussed before here because it is such a good question. Just note one fairly unique difference between revolutions around the world and what is called a “revolution” here- in America the goal was never to overthrow the King or Parliament or to replace it.
And after the war they also did something unique - they chose not to place government above the people like some kind of rival god, but to make it a servant of the people. Instead of government granting rights to citizens, the citizens and states would grant limited rights to the government and would reserve a right to throw it off if need be.
Recall that it people in the bible wanted a king against God’s advice and they ignored the warnings. He was angry at this because asking for a king to rule over them was evidence they lacked faith in God. But he finally relented and gave them what they asked for.
Of course that’s probably a discussion for a different thread.
They were attacked- the British sent troops to take their own subjects’ gunpowder, while at the same time people on the frontier believed the British were wooing the Indians with offers of gunpowder and weapons to help ‘correct’ their ‘wayward subjects.’
It’s a lot like our current government supplying missiles to rebels in Syria while simultaneously trying to disarm Americans. That sort of thing tends to generate hostility.