Iroquois Nations
by Dekanawidah
"A model for a federal system of government for several Native American nations, it influenced Franklin's proposed Albany Plan of Union."

Italy (Italiano)

Jamaica
1962 Constitution with reforms through 1999 (in English)

Japan (in English)

Macedonia (in English)

Malawi (in English)

Malta (in English)

Mexico
1917 Federal Constitution through 2004 reforms (en español)

Nicaragua
Law No. 558 - Framework Law to Guarantee the Stability and Governability of the Country (published in the Official Bulletin La Gaceta on October 20, 2005) (en español)

Norway (in English)

Panama
1972 Constitution with 1978, 1983 and 1994 Reforms (en español)

Paraguay
1992 Constitution (en español)

Peru
1993 Constitution including reforms until October 2005 (en español)

Poland

Portugal (Portugues)

Qatar (in English)

Romania
Draft Constitution of Romania 1991 (in English)

Russia (in English)

Saint Kitts and Nevis
1983 Constitution (in English)

Saint Lucia
1978 Constitution (in English)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
1979 Constitution (in English)

Slovakia (in English)

Suriname
1987 Constitution with Reforms of 1992 (in English)

Trinidad and Tobago
1976 Constitution with reforms through 2000 (in English)

Turkey (in English)

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (in English)
Adopted at the Seventh (Special) Session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Ninth Convocation, on October 7, 1977.

United Kingdom
The Magna Carta.

United States
See United States of America.

Uruguay
Political Constitution of 1967 through 2004 reforms (en español)

Venezuala
1999 Constitution (en español)

Constitutions of the United States of America

Albany Plan of Union
1754
by Benjamin Franklin
"The plan is noteworthy in several respects. First of all, Franklin anticipated many of the problems that would beset the government created after independence, such as finance, dealing with the Indian tribes, control of commerce, and defense. In fact, it contains the seeds of true union, and many of these ideas would be revived and adopted in Philadelphia more than thirty years later."

The Articles of Association
October 20, 1774
"Protest of British acts resulted in this prelude to the Articles of Confederation."

Articles of Confederation
The first governing document for the newly independent United States.

Bill of Rights
"On September 25, 1789, the First Federal Congress of the United States proposed to the state legislatures twelve amendments to the Constitution. The first two, concerning the number of constituents for each Representative and the compensation of Congressmen, were not ratified. Articles three through twelve, known as the Bill of Rights, became the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution and contained guarantees of essential rights and liberties omitted in the crafting of the original document."

Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

State Constitutions
To see the wording of the constitutions of each state with limitations on government, please click on the state you would like.

United States Constitution
The text of the current governing document of the United States of America, including all amendments.

Virginia Bill of Rights
"1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety."

Proposed Constitutions for Libertarian Nations

Bill of Law
by Michael van Notten
A statement of the fundamental legal principles of a free nation.

A constitution for New Freeland
Proposed by members of the Auckland Libertarianz executive.

The Cosmopolitan Union
by Werner Ackermann
"This association was suppressed by the Nazis before it could grow to any considerable size." - John Zube

Draft Constitution for a Reviving or New Nation
by Michael Darby
A constitution for a government designed to protect the rights of its citizens. It is suitable for a homogeneous population accustomed to a parliamentary system with a monarch.

Draft of a Virtual-Canton Constitution, Version 5
by Roderick T. Long
A constitution for a minimal government consisting of a Federal Administration and multiple Virtual Cantons. It would apply only to citizens who sign and assent to it as a contract.

A Model Lease for Orbis
by Spencer Heath MacCallum
A lease for a proprietary community or nation, which provides mechanisms for resolving all social issues on a voluntary basis.

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