1215 Magna Carta
1349 Ordinance of labourers
1351 The Statute of Labourers
1628 The Petition of Right
1647 Agreement of the People
1679 Habeas Corpus Act
1689 The English Bill of Rights
1701 Act of Settlement
1776 The Declaration of Independence
1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
1804 Code Napoleon
1861 The Grand Manifesto of Alexander I
1862 Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
1941 The Atlantic Charter
1942 Declaration by the United Nations