(1215) Magna Carta

(1776) Declaration of Independence

(1777) Articles of Confederation

(1787-) Constitution of the United States

(1798) Alien and Sedition Acts

(1822) The Monroe Doctrine

(1830) President Andrew Jackson’s Message to Congress ‘On Indian Removal’

(1863) The Emancipation Proclamation

(1882) Chinese Exclusion Act

(1948) Universal Declaration of Human Rights

(1951) Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

(1974) International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid