text: The Constitution is not a confirmation of the DoI. The DoI contains no mention of how the new nation will be set up. The Constitution does echo some of the language of the DoI in spelling out protections against violations of the rights of citizens - specifically when speaking of taxation, and in the 3rd Amendment - but the two documents have different purposes. They are both important documents, but mention of religion in the DoI does NOT mean that the Constitution endorses "Judeo-Christian principles".
  
  The DoI does briefly make religious references: "... the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God ..." in the first paragraph, "... their Creator ..." in the second, and "... the protection of divine Providence ..." in the last. None of these is an endorsement of Judeo-Christian religion. The DoI states that governments derive "... their just powers from the consent of the governed ...", NOT from religious authority of any kind.