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Political charters

Human rights instruments

African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights

American Convention on Human Rights

1969 international human rights instrument

Law that provides immunity for past crimes

Anglo-Saxon charters

Documents dealing with Anglo-Saxon legal affairs

Articles of Confederation

First constitution of the United States of America (1781–1789)

Atlantic Charter

1941 Anglo-American policy statement that defined the Allied goals for the postwar world

Bill of Rights 1689

English civil rights legislation

Set of rules that specify the standards for constructed objects such as buildings and nonbuilding structures

Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam

Grant of authority or rights

2008 manifesto signed by Chinese intellectuals and human rights activists

Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union

Set of civil, political and social rights enjoyed by European citizens in the European Union

Charter of the United Nations

1945 foundational treaty of the United Nations

Civil procedure

Body of law that sets out the rules and standards that courts follow when adjudicating civil lawsuits I

Code of Hammurabi

Babylonian legal text

Codification (law)

Process of collecting and restating certain area of law forming a legal code

Constitution of the United Kingdom

Uncodified constitution of the UK

Constitution of the United States

Supreme law of the US since 1789

Convention on the Rights of the Child

International treaty about the rights of children

Corpus Juris Civilis

Collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence as codified by Justinian

Declaration of Interdependence

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

1789 document of the French Revolution

Draconian constitution

Law code created by Draco in the late 7th century BCE in response to the abuse of oral law by Athenian aristocrats

Emancipation Proclamation

Executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862

European Arrest Warrant

Kind of extradition within the European Union

European Convention on Human Rights

International treaty to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms in Europe

Practices intended to reduce the destruction caused by fire

First Amendment to the United States Constitution

1791 amendment limiting government restriction of civil rights

Fundamental Laws of England

History of English constitutions and legal principles

Geneva Conventions

International humanitarian of war crimes

Instrument of Government

1653 constitution of England, Scotland and Ireland

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Treaty adopted by United Nations General Assembly in 1966

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Covenant adopted in 1966 by United Nations General Assembly resolution

Legal instrument

Type of legal document

English charter of rights, first agreed in 1215

Mayflower Compact

First governing document of Plymouth Colony

Municipal charter

Legal document establishing a municipality

Napoleonic Code

French civil code established in 1804

North Atlantic Treaty

1949 treaty forming the basis of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Nuremberg principles

Guidelines for determining what constitutes a war crime

International agreement on the creation of a new peaceful order in Europe

Provisions of Oxford

England's first written constitution

Document granting rights from a monarch

Statute of Westminster 1931

United Kingdom legislation

Treaty of Lisbon

Treaty amending the constitutional basis of the European Union

United States Bill of Rights

First ten amendments to the US Constitution

United States Code

Codification of U.S. federal statutes

United States Declaration of Independence

1776 assertion of colonial America's independence from Great Britain

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Declaration adopted in 1948 by the UN General Assembly