Some historical documents have talked about, or enumerated, the basic rights of each person, or human freedom.
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