[Balgair]

> Nobody ever denounced the press or said that votes shouldn't count, or that the courts are illegitimate, or that the constitution was somehow wrong. It was a formal rebellion seeking independence under a different democracy.

Umm...:

Press Denunciations:

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/21/us/sherman-letters-show-c...

Voting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_New_York_state_election

Courts:

http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/07/the-first-court-packing-pl...

Denunciation of the Constitution:

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declarati...

The 'different' democracy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_(slave)

The problems of our ancestors remain just as alive today. Learning from history means to learn about the holes in ourselves.