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The oldest known surviving peace treaty in the world, the Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty preserved at the Temple of Amun in Karnak. This list of treaties contains known agreements, pacts, peaces, and major contracts between states, armies, governments, and tribal groups.
executive agreements between governors or statewide executive officers of states, which may or may not have the backing of statute or state constitutional law; State-level trigger laws which provide for an automatic action if another one or more states, or the federal government, perform a specified action; or
1824 – Anderson–Gual Treaty – between U.S. and Gran Colombia; first bilateral treaty with another American country; 1827 - Swedish–American Treaty (1827) - between the Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway and the United States; 1828 – Treaty of Limits – between Mexico and the U.S.; confirms the boundary agreed to with Spain in the Adams ...
The compacts came into being as an extension of the US–UN territorial trusteeship agreement, which obliged the federal government of the United States "to promote the development of the people of the Trust Territory toward self-government or independence as appropriate to the particular circumstances of the Trust Territory and its peoples and ...
The division between the two is often unclear and subject to disagreements within a government, since a non-self-executing treaty cannot be acted on without the proper change in domestic law; [22] if a treaty requires implementing legislation, a state may default on its obligations due to its legislature failing to pass the necessary domestic laws.
A bilateral treaty is a treaty between two states. A bilateral treaty may become a multilateral treaty when additional new parties succeed or accede to it. Pope Francis argues in his encyclical letter Fratelli tutti (2020) that "preference should be given to multilateral agreements between states, because, more than bilateral agreements, they guarantee the promotion of a truly universal common ...
A portrait of Roger Sherman, who authored the agreement. The Connecticut Compromise, also known as the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman Compromise, was an agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation each state would have under the United States Constitution.
A binding agreement between actors in international law is known as a treaty. [3] Contract law, the field of the law of obligations concerned with contracts, is based on the principle that agreements must be honoured. [4] Like other areas of private law, contract law varies between jurisdictions.