DL, we obviously disagree about this. You know what? That’s OK.
The point here is that evidence suggests I’m in agreement with the Founders and you are not.
Over and out.
The evidence suggests no such thing. The evidence I am currently seeing is that I have boxed you into a philosophical corner with a question you dare not answer.
If you say, "We must stay under the rule of a King who has not abused us." This will be an offensive position to pretty much everyone on this message board.
If you say "We have a right to self governance, even if a King has been benevolent to us." Then your "grievance" argument is totally debunked.
You are, as most Americans are, mentally invested in the idea that America had a right to be free of England, but you want to make this natural law right conditional on how badly the King of England treated us.
It is not. Men have a right to self govern and therefore they had an unconditional right to reject the Monarchy.