The Constitution of Medina was drafted before the Hijri from Mecca.
=== Pre-modern constitutions ======= Ancient ====Excavations in modern-day Iraq by Ernest de Sarzec in 1877 found evidence of the earliest known code of justice, issued by the Sumerian king Urukagina of Lagash c
 There are a few historical records claiming that this law code was translated into Ge'ez and entered Ethiopia around 1450 in the reign of Zara Yaqob

