Documents

The founding, legal and diplomatic texts and works of political theory this atlas treats as documents: constitutions and founding charters, declarations of rights, treaties and international agreements, judicial rulings that settled a constitutional dispute, and the treatises that argue for a view of the state. Organized into five subcategories by document type and purpose, from Constitutions and Founding Charters through Political Philosophy and Theoretical Works, rather than by era or country, so a reader can browse by what kind of text a document is rather than when or where it was written.