foundational legal document

C272
concept

A foundational legal document is an authoritative written instrument that establishes the core principles, structures, and rules governing a legal system, organization, or relationship.

All labels observed (33)

Label Occurrences
historical document 385
legal document 262
legal instrument 250

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: foundational legal document
Generated description
A foundational legal document is an authoritative written instrument that establishes the core principles, structures, and rules governing a legal system, organization, or relationship.

Instances (1,346)

Instance Via concept surface
Federal Law on the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia) legal act
UN Security Council Resolution 1822 legal instrument
Law on Organization of the Government of Vietnam legal act
Constitution of the State of Perak legal document
UN Security Council Resolution 1904 legal instrument
White House tapes historical document
Edict on the Transfer of the Capital historical document
United States–Cherokee treaty series legal instrument
Montana Constitution
Law of Ukraine on Local Self-Government legal act
Orlyk
surface form: Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk
constitutional document
Constitution of 1857 of Mexico legal document
UN Security Council Resolution 2083 legal instrument
Photographic Sketch Book of the War historical document
Charter of the City of Tulsa
Constitution of 1852 legal document
California Rules of Court legal instrument
UN Security Council Resolution 2161 legal instrument
Constitution of 1864 historical document
Federal Constitutional Law of Austria constitutional document
Constitution of the State of Negeri Sembilan legal document
Admiralty instructions legal instrument
Charter of Volgograd Oblast legal document
UN Security Council Resolution 1673 legal instrument
Protocol No 10 on Permanent Structured Cooperation legal instrument
Higher Education Act of Lower Saxony legal act
British military administration records historical document
Basic Law of the Macao Special Administrative Region constitutional document
Great Privilege of 1477 historical document
UN Security Council Resolution 1810 legal instrument
UN Security Council Resolution 1977 legal instrument
GNSO Operating Procedures governance document
Bolnisi inscriptions historical document
Federal Law "On the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation" legal act
Charter of the City of Norman
UN Security Council Resolution 1575 legal instrument
Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence historical document
The Journal of John Winthrop historical document
NCAA Constitution governing document
Executive Order 12333 legal document
Hossbach Memorandum historical document
Treaty of Granada (1491) historical document
Panglong Agreement historical document
Constitution of the State of Selangor legal document
Constitution of the State of Pahang legal document
Declaration of Arbroath historical document
Basel Manifesto historical document
Elements of Crimes legal document
Charter of Justice 1801 constitutional document
Declaration of Independence of Liberia historical document