French Constitution of 1791
The French Constitution of 1791 was the first written constitution in France, created after the collapse of the absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime. One of the basic precepts of the French Revolution was adopting constitutionality and establishing popular sovereignty.
French Constitution of 1791.
Proclamation of the Constitution on the place du marché des Innocents on September 14, 1791, by Jean-Louis Prieur, (Musée de la Révolution française).
A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organization or other type of entity, and commonly determines how that entity is to be governed.
Constitution of the Year XII (First French Republic)
Constitution of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1848
Detail from Hammurabi's stele shows him receiving the laws of Babylon from the seated sun deity.
A painting depicting George Washington at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 signing of the U.S. Constitution