“I can say they were wrong and will. There was no Biblical justification for the American Revolution. Full Stop.”
They may have been, however, the past cannot be undone.
We have a nation now that is existing under a set of law God either appointed or permitted to rule us. That law is the Constitution. That same law makes it illegal for the authorities to abridge freedom of speech, worship, etc.
So regardless of the circumstances of the founding today, right now, the authorities are the criminals when they abridge those rights. They are the ones disobeying God.
I agree with that, once a government is established, by right of conquest, orderly process or revolution, they become earthly authorities and are instituted as governments among men (Romans 13) who rule by God’s authority.