"The principle of all sovereignty lies essentially in the nation." The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen considers legitimate the revolt of the deputies against the absolute monarchy, when declaring as the indispensable right of the man the "resistance to the oppression".
Meaning this that the declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen is the one that declares the principles in the society, leaving behind practices, institutions and principles of the Old Regime. What was lacking basically in France, they were Old Regime.