I think you missed my point.
The Founders knew that the acts they were engaging in would be considered high treason by the King, and yet they went ahead with it anyway. That is one of many things that makes the American Revolution so awesome.
I don’t consider it treason. I consider it liberation.
Okay, I misread you, and we are in agreement that it was not treason.
However, I believe the cabal led by Grenville KNEW FULL WELL that what they were trying to pull off with respect to extracting moneys from the Americans grossly violated their constitutional rights and that the resistance by the Sons of Liberty groups and ultimately armed defense was NOT treason.
Their mindset was similar to that of progressives today - they viewed ordinary Americans with condescension, they believed their vision of an intellectual elite based in Whitehall administering a global trading empire benefiting all involved (in their view) justified taking the property of Americans to pay for the expenses of the empire with little attention paid to the procedural niceties of actually asking and receiving the permission of those Americans before taking their property.