This group gathers the constitutions, charters and statutes of the long nineteenth century, 1815 to 1913. These are the constitutions, charters, edicts, statutes and codes by which rulers and assemblies set down the law of a realm. A document belongs here when its cited article gives a date inside this span for the document's own signing, adoption, issue or composition. It excludes documents dated earlier or later, which sit in the neighboring period groups of the same kind. The long nineteenth century from 1815 to 1913 covers the settlement after Napoleon, industrial growth, liberal revolutions and the rise of European and American empires.
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Charter Oath
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Constitution of the Empire of Japan
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Danish June Constitution of 1849
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Edict of Gulhane
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Enchiridion Symbolorum
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Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
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Frankfurt Constitution
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French Constitution of 1848
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Hungarian April Laws
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Ottoman Constitution of 1876
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Prussian Constitution of 1848
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Statuto Albertino
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Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Wikipedia
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The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Meiji Constitution (Wikipedia)
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The Constitution of the Empire of Japan (Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國憲法; Shinjitai: 大日本帝国憲法, romanized: Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kenpō), known informally as the Meiji Constitution (明治憲法, Meiji Kenpō), was the constitution of the Empire of Japan which was proclaimed on February 11, 1889, and remained in force between November 29, 1890, until May 2, 1947.
Edict of Gülhane (Wikipedia)
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The Gülhane Hatt-ı Şerifi ("Supreme Edict of Gülhane") or Tanzimât Fermânı ("Imperial Edict of Reorganization") was a proclamation by Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid I in 1839 that launched the Tanzimât period of reforms and reorganization in the Ottoman Empire.
Constitution of the Ottoman Empire (Wikipedia)
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'Basic law'; French: Constitution ottomane) was in effect from 1876 to 1878 in a period known as the First Constitutional Era, and from 1908 to 1922 in the Second Constitutional Era.
Charter Oath (Wikipedia)
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The Charter Oath (五ヶ條ノ御誓文, Gokajō no Goseimon; Shinjitai: 五箇条の御誓文; more literally, the Oath in Five Articles) was promulgated on 6 April 1868 in Kyoto Imperial Palace.
Wikipedia: Frankfurt Constitution
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The National Assembly adopted the constitution on 28 March 1849, and twenty-eight German states collectively recognized it on 14 April.
Wikipedia: Statuto Albertino
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The Statuto Albertino (English: Albertine Statute) was the constitution granted by King Charles Albert of Sardinia to the Kingdom of Sardinia on 4 March 1848 and written in Italian and French.
Wikipedia: Constitution of Prussia (1848)
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The 1848 Constitution of Prussia was imposed on the Kingdom of Prussia by King Frederick William IV on 5 December 1848 in response to demands that arose during the German revolutions of 1848-1849.
Wikipedia: April Laws
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The laws were passed by the Hungarian Diet in March 1848 in Pozsony (Pressburg, now Bratislava, Slovakia) and signed by king Ferdinand V at the Primate's Palace in the same city on 11 April 1848.
Wikipedia: French Constitution of 1848
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The Constitution of 1848 is the constitution passed in France on 4 November 1848 by the National Assembly, the constituent body of the Second French Republic.
Enchiridion symbolorum, definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum (Wikipedia)
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This compendium was first published in 1854, and has been updated many times in subsequent editions since.
Wikipedia: Constitution of Denmark
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Its adoption in 1849 ended an absolute monarchy and introduced democracy.
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