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The Declaration reflects that the people have natural rights. People have the right "to alter or abolish" unjust governments. Popular Sovereignty states that all government power comes from the people.
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They saw the government in terms of a social contract in which "We the people of the United States" entered. There was also a separation of powers among the Judicial, Legislative and Executive branches; a concept borrowed from Montesquieu.
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