Declarations, petitions and charters of rights made inside a single state or colony, from the English Petition of Right of 1628 and the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776 to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. A document belongs here when its cited article presents it as a national or colonial instrument rather than an international one. The group sits under the Declarations and Foundational Rights Instruments subcategory of the Political Atlas and helps a reader browse that subcategory by the scope of each instrument and the body that adopted it. Each member is placed on the strength of the article it cites, so a reader can follow the grouping back to a stated source.
All National Declarations, Petitions and Charters of Rights
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Wikipedia: Virginia Declaration of Rights
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The Virginia Declaration of Rights was drafted in 1776 to proclaim the inherent rights of men, including the right to reform or abolish "inadequate" government.
Wikipedia: Petition of Right
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The Petition of Right, passed on 7 June 1628, is an English constitutional document setting out specific individual protections against the state, reportedly of equal value to Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights 1689.
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Wikipedia)
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The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (French: Charte canadienne des droits et libertés), often simply referred to as the Charter in Canada, is a bill of rights entrenched in the Constitution of Canada, forming the first part of the Constitution Act, 1982.
U.S. National Archives: Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
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In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
U.S. National Archives: Emancipation Proclamation: Transcript
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Done at the City of Washington, this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh.
Conseil constitutionnel: Declaration of Human and Civic Rights of 26 August 1789
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In consequence whereof, the National Assembly recognises and declares, in the presence and under the auspices of the Supreme Being, the following Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
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