The Declaration of Independence

Declares the source of our rights do not come from government, but from God. However the definition of a national includes the word allegiance.

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.