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The circumstances in which both documents were written were very similar and it is apparent that the American declaration of independence heavily influenced the French declaration of rights.
There is common call for the right to self-government. The French people created their representative body in the form of their National Assembly which represented like the Americans forming their Congress. They immediately established this by stating “The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly ”. This is equivalent to the US’s entity of Congress as reflected in “ Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress ”.
Both declarations have stated their purpose of self-government as protecting their chosen rights. In the French declaration, it states these rights as “"liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression free communication of ideas". In the US declaration it is phrased as “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness". Liberty is a common desire. “Pursuit of happiness” actually encompasses all rights as this is the ultimate end in mind. The French improved on this by detailing this right into more specific ones. What the French may have noticed though is the absence of a clear statement on the freedom of speech in the US declaration and thus they included “ free communication of ideas". They recognized that any democratic form of government will not be sustainable without a strong freedom of speech institutionalized in the press.
The French declaration was evidently inspired by the US declaration and had even improved on it with the inclusion on the freedom of speech and stating more specific rights.
