Don't malign the founders. They did exactly the same thing. The Difference is, Mad King George wasn't insane enough to murder 750,000 people to force his rule on the 13 states who broke away from him.
He stopped after 15,000 men were killed.
One would have thought that after the new United States declared independence was an absolute and God given right, there would have been no further debate on the subject, but four score and seven years later, they seemed to have forgotten the justification for their own founding.
The confederates exercised their God given right to rebellion, and got what was coming to them. When you name the tune, you’d better be ready to dance.