Legal charters for the New World: the Spanish Laws of Burgos, the New Laws of 1542 and the Laws of the Indies, the English proprietors' Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina and the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace. A document belongs here when its cited article describes a colonial or indigenous charter of the Americas. It excludes Old World sources. An indigenous constitution counts here when the cited article describes it as a constitution or law of a people of the Americas before or alongside European settlement.
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Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (Wikipedia)
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The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina were adopted on 1 March 1669 by the eight Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina, which included most of the land between what is now Virginia and Florida.
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.
Laws of Burgos (Wikipedia)
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The Laws of Burgos (Spanish: Leyes de Burgos), promulgated on 27 December 1512 in Burgos, Crown of Castile (Spain), was the first codified set of laws governing the behavior of Spaniards in the Americas, particularly with regard to the Indigenous people of the Americas ("native Caribbean Indians").
Laws of the Indies (Wikipedia)
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The Laws of the Indies (Spanish: Leyes de las Indias) are the entire body of laws issued by the Spanish Crown in 1573 for the American and the Asian possessions of its empire.
New Laws (Wikipedia)
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The New Laws (Spanish: Leyes Nuevas), also known as the New Laws of the Indies for the Good Treatment and Preservation of the Indians, were issued on November 20, 1542, by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (King Charles I of Spain) and regard the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
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