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Charter of the United Nations
The Charter of the United Nations, also known as the UN Charter, is the 1945 treaty that established the United Nations, binding its 193 member states under international law.
Charter of the VOC (Octrooi of 1602)
The Charter of the VOC was a 1602 patent of the States General that created the Dutch East India Company with a 21-year trade monopoly.
Charter of Vladimir Monomakh
The Charter of Vladimir Monomakh (Устав Владимира Мономаха о резах) is legislation attributed to Grand Prince Vladimir Monomakh of Kiev in 1113, capping interest and easing debt bondage.
Charter school
Charter school: publicly funded, independently operated U.S. public school under a performance contract with an authorizer; first law Minnesota 1991; tuition-free, lottery admission, exempt from many state rules.
Charter school authorization and oversight failures
Charter school authorization and oversight failures are systemic breakdowns by authorizers, the public bodies that approve, monitor, and close charter schools, allowing fraud, financial mismanagement, and abrupt closures despite public funding.
Charter schools in the United States
Charter schools in the United States, also called public charter schools, are tuition-free public schools of choice operating under performance contracts with authorizers. First authorized by Minnesota in 1991; 3.7 million students, about 7.5% of public enrollment, attended in 2021-22.
Charter to the Muscovy Company (1555)
The Charter to the Muscovy Company (Жалованная грамота Московской компании) comprises two linked 1555 grants giving England's first joint-stock company free, duty-free trade throughout Russia.
Charter to the Stroganovs (1558 and 1574)
The charters to the Stroganovs were grants by Tsar Ivan IV in 1558 and 1574 giving the Stroganov merchants vast lands in the Kama region and western Siberia.
Charter to the Towns
The Charter to the Towns (Жалованная грамота городам) is a 1785 act of Catherine II confirming the rights of Russian towns and creating elected urban institutions.
Chartered accountant
A chartered accountant is an accountancy professional entitled to the title after passing examinations and completing supervised experience with a body such as ICAEW, ICAS, CA ANZ, or ICAI.
Chartered Financial Analyst
The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) is a professional credential in investment analysis and portfolio management, awarded by the CFA Institute after three exams and 4,000 hours of work experience.
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) is a UK professional body, founded in 1919, that qualifies management accountants and has shared the CGMA designation with the American Institute of CPAs since 2017.
Charterhouse School
Charterhouse School, also called Charterhouse, is a co-educational British independent day and boarding school in Godalming, Surrey, founded by Thomas Sutton in 1611 in London and moved to Surrey in 1872; pupils are called Carthusians.
Chartism
Chartism, also known as the Chartist Movement, was a British working-class movement for political rights that emerged in 1836 and presented three rejected petitions to Parliament.
Charudeshna
Charudeshna (चारुदेष्ण, Cārudeṣṇa) is a son of Krishna and Rukmini in the Mahabharata, Harivamsha, and Puranas; a Yadava prince of Dvaraka who fought Shalva, slew Vivindhya, and died in the Mausala Parva.
Charuni Patibanda-Sanchez
Charuni Patibanda-Sanchez is an American Democratic politician and attorney serving as Secretary of State of Delaware since January 2025, the first person of color and third woman to hold the office.
Charvaka
Charvaka, also called Lokāyata, is a materialist school of Indian philosophy accepting only sense perception as knowledge, treating consciousness as a product of matter, and rejecting the Vedas.
Charybdis (Χάρυβδις)
Charybdis (Χάρυβδις, Kharybdis) is the whirlpool monster of Greek myth, opposite Scylla in the Strait of Messina, swallowing the sea thrice daily in Homer's Odyssey 12 and the origin of the idiom 'between Scylla and Charybdis.'
Chase and Waite Courts (1864–1888)
The Chase and Waite Courts were consecutive eras of the US Supreme Court under Chief Justices Salmon Chase (1864–1873) and Morrison Waite (1874–1888), spanning Reconstruction and the first interpretations of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.
Chase Bank
Chase Bank, also known as JPMorgan Chase Bank, is the consumer and commercial banking brand of JPMorgan Chase, the largest US bank by assets, with more than 5,000 branches.
Chase Blasi
Chase Blasi is an American Republican politician who represents District 26 in the Kansas Senate and has served as the chamber's Majority Leader since January 2025.
Chase Coleman
Chase Coleman, also known as F. Chase Coleman III, is an American hedge fund manager who founded New York's Tiger Global Management in 2001, backing Facebook, ByteDance, and OpenAI.
Chase Court
The Chase Court (1864-1873) was the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, spanning Reconstruction; known for Ex parte Milligan, Hepburn v. Griswold, the Slaughterhouse Cases, and the Johnson impeachment trial.
Chase Iron Eyes
Chase Iron Eyes is a Lakota attorney and activist, executive director of the Lakota People's Law Project, co-founder of LastRealIndians.com, 2016 Democratic candidate for North Dakota's House seat, and a Dakota Access Pipeline protest figure arrested in February 2017.
Chase Oliver
Chase Oliver (born 1985, Nashville) is an Atlanta-based Libertarian activist and the party's 2024 U.S. presidential nominee, nominated May 26, 2024, after seven convention ballots; previously a 2020 Georgia House and 2022 Senate candidate.
Chase Tramont
Chase Tramont (born 1979) is an American Republican politician and member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing District 30. He previously served on the Port Orange City Council.
Chashtana
Chashtana (चष्टन) was the founder of the Kardamaka line of the Western Kshatrapas, the Shaka dynasty that ruled western India from Ujjain; he was succeeded by his grandson Rudradaman I.
Chasqui
A chasqui, also spelled chaski, was a relay runner of the Inca Empire who carried official messages and khipus along the empire's road network, the Qhapaq Ñan.
Chasten Buttigieg
Chasten Buttigieg (born 1989, Traverse City, Michigan) is an American teacher, author, and LGBTQ advocate, husband of Pete Buttigieg; wrote the 2020 memoir I Have Something to Tell You and its 2023 young adult edition.
Chastity
Chastity: the moral virtue governing sexual conduct, classically a part of temperance per Aquinas. Found in Catholic, Islamic, and Confucian ethics; historically gendered, debated in modern virtue ethics.