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All Constitutions, Charters and Statutes of the Medieval and Early Modern World, 1000 to 1699

This group gathers the constitutions, charters and statutes of the medieval and early modern world, 1000 to 1699. 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 medieval and early modern world, 1000 to 1699, covers feudal kingdoms, the Church and the Empire, the age of exploration and the wars of religion.

All Constitutions, Charters and Statutes of the Medieval and Early Modern World, 1000 to 1699
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Wikipedia: Diet of Worms
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The Diet of Worms of 1521
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Habeas Corpus Act 1679 (Wikipedia)
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The Habeas Corpus Act 1679
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Wikipedia: Domesday Book
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states that in 1085 the king sent his agents to survey every shire in England, to list his holdings and dues owed to him.
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Great Law of Peace (Wikipedia)
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The Great Law of Peace, also known as Gayanashagowa, is the oral constitution of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, established circa 1102 CE among the Five Nations of the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca.
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Statute of Kalisz (Wikipedia)
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The statute was issued by the Duke of Greater Poland Bolesław the Pious on September 8, 1264 in Kalisz.
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Edict of Nantes - Wikipedia
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The Edict of Nantes (French: édit de Nantes) was an edict signed in April 1598 by King Henry IV of France that granted the Calvinist Protestants of France, also known as Huguenots, substantial rights in the nation, which was predominantly Catholic.
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Statute of Westminster 1275 (Wikipedia)
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The Statute of Westminster of 1275 (3 Edw.
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Petition of Right (Wikipedia)
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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.
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Provisions of Oxford (Wikipedia)
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The Provisions of Oxford (Latin: Provisiones Oxonie or Oxoniae) were constitutional reforms to the government of late medieval England adopted during the Oxford Parliament of 1258 to resolve a dispute between Henry III of England and his barons.
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Instrument of Government (Wikipedia)
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It was drafted by Major-General John Lambert in 1653.
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Wikipedia: Aslak Bolt's cadastre
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Aslak Bolt's cadastre (Norwegian: Aslak Bolts jordebog; written 1432-1433) is a Norwegian cadastre, a detailed register of properties and incomes of the Archdiocese of Nidaros.
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Wikipedia: Summa Parisiensis
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The Summa Parisiensis is an anonymous commentary on the Decretum Gratiani from about 1170.
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Wikipedia: Spondent quas non exhibent
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Spondent quas non exhibent (sometimes referred to as Spondent pariter) is a papal decretal promulgated in 1317 by Pope John XXII forbidding the practice of alchemy.
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Wikipedia: Cum Occasione
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Cum occasione is an apostolic constitution in the form of a papal bull promulgated by Pope Innocent X in 1653 which condemned five propositions said to have been found in Cornelius Jansen's Augustinus as heretical.
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Wikipedia: Mayflower Compact
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IN WITNESS whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape-Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, Anno Domini; 1620.
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Bill of Rights 1689, Wikipedia
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The Bill of Rights received royal assent on 16 December 1689.
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Wikipedia: Liber Censuum
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The Liber Censuum Romanæ Ecclesiæ (Latin for "Census Book of the Roman Church"; also referred to as the Codex of Cencius) is an eighteen-volume (originally) financial record of the real estate revenues of the papacy from 492 to 1192.
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