Of course, holding a government is limited in its authority is the opposite of asserting that the government is G-d.
We are all familiar with cases where government officials act in excess of their legal authority, but I will offer a hypothetical: Legal authority is not extended to rape because an individual police officer commits rape. That would be giving the government G-d like powers. Rather, the police officer committing rape would be subject to prosecution for his crime, and his connection with the government would not be justification.
If there was another secession movement would you take up arms against that state(s)? Would you kill your one time fellow citizens that were deprecating their independence? Well would you?