At what point should the US government be considered illegitimate?

from Natural News: On December 16, 1773, off the Boston coast, irate American colonists, fed up with paying excessive tax rates and getting political abuse from their colonial masters in return, flooded the sea with 342 chests of British East India Company tea. (Article by Ben Bartee republished from TheDailyBell.com) It was a glorious symbolic act of […]

Source