| Richard P. Horwitz - 2001 - 420 pages
...Senate (in ratifying a treaty with Tripoli, June 5, 1805) made the point crystal clear: "The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." Tests of that reading of American history and culture were rarely visible until the 1960s, when there... | |
| Loren P. Beth - 2002 - 192 pages
...the very men who had drafted the Constitution. This treaty states in Article XI that "The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion; ... it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity of Musselmen."53... | |
| Mark A. Noll - 2002 - 637 pages
...which he inserted an article in the English (but not the Arabic) text asserting that "the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion." Mild protests were heard, but not in the United States Senate, which approved the treaty without a... | |
| Alan Mittleman, Robert Licht, Jonathan D. Sarna - 2002 - 396 pages
...Midstream 8 (December 1962): 3-14. Church-State Dilemmas of American Jews Jonathan D. Sarna "The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." This statement, found in Article 1 1 of a 1797 treaty between the United States and the Bey and subjects... | |
| Wayne E. Fuller - 2003 - 296 pages
...Journal, 2Sth Cong., 3d sess., 42, 293 f1838i. Changing the Sabbath to a Day of Rest As the govemment of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion . . . it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinion shall ever produce... | |
| Joseph P. Hester - 2003 - 296 pages
...(Original wording of the First Amendment; Annals of Congress 434 [June 8, 1789]). "As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded 136 137 on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion,... | |
| F. Forrester Church - 2004 - 182 pages
...John Adams and ratified by the entire US Senate — which opens with the words, "As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion " I follow these documents with an appendix: observations on the American experiment in granting religious... | |
| Anouar Majid - 2004 - 292 pages
...between the United States and Tripoli (subsequently violated by the latter) stated that: the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of... | |
| Mark Crispin Miller - 2004 - 366 pages
...fanatical religions, Christianity included — signed the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796: "The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."* The line comes from Article 11, which thus reads in its entirety: "As the government of the United... | |
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