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In 539 B.C., the armies of Cyrus the Great, the first king of ancient Persia, conquered the city of Babylon
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Documents asserting individual rights, such as the Magna Carta
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is one of England's most famous Constitutional documents.
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The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments,
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Bill of Rights of the United States of America (1791) ... Federalists argued that the Constitution did not need a bill of rights, because the people and the states kept any powers not given to the federal government. Anti-Federalists held that a bill of rights was necessary to safeguard individual liberty.
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A highly accessible, easy to use online version full text transcript including the Bill of Rights and the rest of the Amendments with both sequential and subject indexes.