So then do we agree that the American Revolution was unjust?
So then do we agree that the American Revolution was unjust?
Nope. Lincoln's point was about whether any self-governing community could long endure if any sub-group could drop out whenever it felt like it. The British Empire was not a self-governing community, as the British Crown and Parliament reserved the right to make laws for their colonies whenever they felt like it. Not to mention the fact that even in Britain the political system was really an oligarchy quite unrepresentative of the people as a whole.
IOW, the colonial legislatures could be abolished or over-ridden whenever the British government felt like it.
A very different kettle of fish from pre Civil War America, where even Lincoln, the evil avatar of abolitionism (according to many in the South) agreed that slavery in a state could not be touched without amending the Constitution except by that state. And of course the requirements for amending the Constitution are such that no such amendment could have passed without southern agreement.