Rights of People
Some historical documents have talked about, or enumerated, the basic rights of each person, or human freedom.
Click on the “url” on the right to go to that document.
| Magna Carta – England – 1215 | http://bessel.org/magna.htm |
| English Bill of Rights – England – 1689 | http://bessel.org/billrts.htm |
| Declaration of the Independence – United States of America – July 4, 1776 | http://bessel.org/declind.htm |
| Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen – France – Aug. 26, 1789 |
http://bessel.org/declrts.htm |
| Bill of Rights – United States of America – 1791 | http://bessel.org/billrtus.htm |
| Emancipation Proclamation – United States of America – January 1, 1863 | http://bessel.org/emanc.htm |
| Gettysburg Address – United States of America – November 19, 1863 | http://bessel.org/gettaddr.htm |
| U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points – January 8, 1918 | http://bessel.org/14pts.htm |
| U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms – January 6, 1941 | http://bessel.org/4freed.htm |
| Universal Declaration of Human Rights – United Nations – 1948 | http://bessel.org/univdecl.htm |
| European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights – 2000 | http://bessel.org/eurchart.htm |