Under the Framers’ understanding of Romans 13, the American Revolution was not an act of anarchy or rebellion; rather it was an act of resistance to a government which violated the Biblical purposes for which God had ordained civil government.
The Framers also believed the Biblical justification for their actions was the fact they did not initiate the conflict. Committed to peaceful reconciliation, the Framers pursued that course for 11 consecutive years before the separation from Great Britain. In the last two years of their peaceful reconciliation attempts (e.g., as in May 1776 with their Olive Branch Petition), their entreaties and appeals were met solely by military force. In fact, King George III dispatched 25,000 British troops to invade his own Colonies, enter into the homes of his own citizens, take their private possessions and goods, and imprison them without trials – all in violation of his own British common law, English Bill of Rights, and Magna Carta....
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