Insurrection: "The act or an instance of open revolt against civil authority or a constituted government."
American Loyalists battling Patriot government forces would be a "domestic insurrection" in the eyes of our Founders.
If those loyalists included runaway servants & slaves, those slaves were said to "rise in arms".
Yes, an actual slave revolt would indeed qualify as "domestic insurrection", but there were no slave revolts, at that time.
Nor did Brits incite slave revolts, but rather for slaves to run away to join the Brits and "rise in arms".
And least we forget, the point of this definitional hair-splitting is to demonstrate that protecting slavery was not mentioned, even implicitly, in the Declaration of Independence.
“Insurrection: “The act or an instance of open revolt against civil authority or a constituted government.” “
Again, may we see your sources for the term “domestic insurrection.”
In your post #326 you were very specific: “”Domestic insurrections” refers to actual insurrections of British loyalists against local patriots in Virginia & elsewhere in the months before July, 1776.”
If you have actual sources for the term contemporaneous with 1776 I’d like to see and learn. If you don’t have sources, that’s fine. Just say, I don’t have any. There is no shame in saying you can’t find your sources.