"the sovereign had a lawful right, some would add obligation, to suppress rebellion"

That would be the Feds and we all know where that has taken us to. I have read and read many a document to my head hurts and I see nothing there that says The Federal government has the right or obligation to suppress any rebellion in fact it speaks of the opposite, even old honest Abe(I’m rolling now) speaks of this in his inauguration speech.

"If by the mere force of numbers, a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution -- certainly would, if such right were a vital one"

"Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it"