Foundational

Sealed at Runnymede in June 1215 by King John under pressure from rebellious barons, Magna Carta established the principle that th...

Signed in February 1840 between the British Crown and over 500 Maori rangatira, the Treaty of Waitangi promised Maori undisturbed ...

Ratified in 1780 and still in force, the Massachusetts Constitution is the oldest functioning written constitution in the world, p...

The Gayanashagowa, the Great Law of Peace, united the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca nations into the Haudenosaunee ...

Signed in San Francisco June 26, 1945 and in force October 24, the UN Charter created the United Nations with the Security Council...

Adopted by the UN General Assembly December 10, 1948 without dissent, the Universal Declaration proclaimed thirty articles of righ...

The EU rests on treaties, from the 1957 Treaty of Rome through Maastricht 1992, the failed 2004 constitutional treaty rejected by ...

Recorded in the Nihon Shoki chronicle of 720, the Seventeen Article Constitution is traditionally attributed to Prince Shotoku, re...