"the silence" of the declaration

Last week I was doing my reading for American Government, and I discovered the "silence" of the declaration of independence as to the kind of government necessary for freedom. Democracy has become so simultaneous with the word freedom in the U.S. today that separating them feels unnatural. However, I think that when we look back to this first declaration of our country, we can learn important things about how to deal with countries that are emerging now. It is tempting to say that 'of course democracy is freedom' and that 'of course everyone wants freedom' and therefore to try and impose a foreign system of government on developing countries. But our founders did not do that. They allowed the idea of the country to be born without a specific plan of government in mind. Perhaps when we are attempting to help other countries as they come into the political world, we could offer them the same chance that we said is the right of all men - to let a people choose the government they feel will best serve them. That sounds suspiciously like a democracy, I know - the people choosing the government. So perhaps, then, I believe that there needs to be a moment of democracy in which the people choose which direction their nation will go. When you think about it, though, that kind of choice is not so much democracy as it is reality. Every day that a people gets up and goes about their work without attempting a revolution, they are in fact perpetuating, agreeing to, the government they currently have. The tricky part, though, is that in some nations, a resistance movement would have so little chance of unifying the people much less succeeding, that this principle of silent perpetuation gets complicated. It's true that the people of North Korea could, as a whole, just decide not to go to work. But they have no way to unify that kind of movement, and so the individuals participating would be virtually committing suicide. In such instances, do we as a nation have the right or responsibility to intervene? I'm not sure - I will have to think about that some more.