Some of the modifications suggested by Jefferson do not require any comment; they are mere verbal changes such as the substitution of "_tels sont_" for "_tels que_". But as Lafayette had enumerated among the essential rights of man "_le soin de son honneur_" and "_la propriété_", Jefferson put both terms in brackets, thus indicating that they should be taken out. The elimination of the first term is probably due to the fact that Montesquieu had indicated that "_honneur_" is the main principle on which rests monarchical government and is easily understandable. The elimination of the "_droit de propriété_" can only be explained if we refer to the document in which Jefferson had "explained to himself" his theory of natural rights, and established a distinction between the natural rights and the civil rights. Lafayette accepted the first correction but not the second; he was too much under the influence of his physiocratic friends even to understand the much more advanced theory of Jefferson. The project he submitted to the Assembly, as well as the three "Déclarations des droits de l'homme", consequently followed on this point the Virginia Bill of Rights rather than the Declaration of Independence. In a similar way, Lafayette had listed the powers constituting the government in the following order: "_exécutif, législatif et judiciaire_", and refused to follow the order suggested by Jefferson's "_législatif, exécutif, judiciaire_". This was more than a mere question of arrangement; there was evidently in the minds of both Jefferson and his French friend a question of hierarchy and almost subordination; if it is a mere nuance, the nuance was very significant. The last paragraph deserves even more careful consideration. In the January version it read: "_Et comme le progrès des lumières, et l'introduction des abus nécessitent de temps en temps une revision de la constitution_...." The second edition annotated by Jefferson expressed the same idea in much more definite terms: "_Et comme le progrès des lumières, l'introduction des abus et le droit des générations qui se succèdent nécessitent la révision de tout établissement humain, il doit être indiqué des moyens constitutionnels qui assurent dans certain cas une convocation extraordinaire de représentants dont le seul objet soit d'examiner et modifier, s'il le faut, la forme du Gouvernement_." This mention of the "_droit des générations qui se succèdent_" seems a typically Jeffersonian idea. The same theory will be found fully developed in a letter to Samuel Kercheval written in 1816 and dealing with the revision of the Constitution of Virginia. It was expressed originally in a letter to James Madison, written from Paris on September 9, 1789. Curiously enough, Jefferson declared then that this theory had never been proposed before: "The question whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started on this or on our side of the water.