Had hoped for an informative exchange, but you are too well-written to have accidentally misread the Constitution so badly; with that piece of intellectual dishonesty, we are done.
The Declaration of Independence is a foundational document of the United States, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. It declared the 13 American colonies’ independence from Great Britain and established the United States of America as a sovereign nation.
As such, they were no longer subjects of the King, but were instead citizens of a country they had established, as far as they were concerned. They still had to fight the King to solidify that proclamation, but that doesn't change the fact that they were no longer subjects, but were rightfully citizens. When that become solidified by their defeat of the British. Their citizenship in the United States carried forth as if they had always been citizens, nut mere subjects of the King of England, and they possessed the authority to ordain that to be so.
So, you may be done, but you aren't the winner of this debate.