Treaty of Tripoli
Posted in Quotes on January 21st, 2005This is the initial entry for a new category called “Quotes”. From time to time, we come across pertinent/thought-provoking/weird quotes, so this category is more of a parking spot for us until we can get them into Jim’s great little quotes database, “A Commonplace Book”. If any readers find any of them interesting, then so much the better.
So, to the quote. This was a sig quote on an email I just received. I looked it up and sure enough the quote is true:
“And Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli, drafted in 1796 (President Washington’s last year in office), passed unanimously and signed into law in 1797 by President John Adams, says:
“…the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion…”