Be based upon the consent of the governed. Consent of the governed refers to the principal that a government's legitimacy and moral right to use state power is only justified and legal when derived from the people.
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There are a great number of ideas that are not included in the Declaration of Independence. One idea is human fashion.
people have equal rights People have natural rights
They both suggest that governments should most importantly insure and protect the rights of their citizens.
The Declaration of Independence was written to declare independence from a mother country and start another, completely separate, country. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was actually more like the Bill of Rights in that it lists the rights of the common citizen and what the government cannot or should not do. It tells that the French want a new form of government. They are not breaking away from their country, they are breaking away from their king and old form of government.
No, I do not agree that the Declaration of Independence should be revised however the document has ingrained flaws from the time and era it was written in that need to be recognized and acknowledged.