Hey Regan!

"Spot On"!

<Grin>!



On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Regan Duffy <drob...@comcast.net> wrote:

> Keith, now you've done it, confusing the poor little entitled victim with
> facts and logic and not accepting the rantings, bordering on hysteria,
> based purely on emotion as conclusive.  Like I said, pearls cast before
> swine.
>
> *Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID*
>
>
> Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You've thrown no one in jail, period. Nor do you speak for the conscience
> of the American people.
>
> I've never claimed that our government was anything less than secular,  it
> is obviously a secular republican form of government.   What I did say, and
> what I and most all thoughtful Americans know, is that our system of
> government, and our laws are based upon Judeo-Christian tenets and
> principals.  This is fact, and no matter how many Anti-American articles
> from hate sites you choose to cut and paste, nothing will ever change that
> fact/
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 2:48 PM, plainolamerican <
> plainolameri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> spout all the quotes you want but it won't change the fact that the US
>> government is secular and will not yield to religious myth believers like
>> yourself.
>>
>> but hey ... go ahead and take a stand like Kim Davis ... we'll throw your
>> ass in jail also.
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 1:08:29 PM UTC-6, KeithInTampa wrote:
>>
>>> On March 6, 1789, President John Adams called for a national day of
>>> fasting and prayer for the country could "*call to mind our numerous
>>> offenses against the most high God, confess them before Him with the
>>> sincerest penitence, implore his pardoning mercy, through the Great
>>> Mediator and Redeemer, for our past transgression, and that through the
>>> grace of His Holy Spirit, we may be disposed and enabled to yield a more
>>> suitable obedience. . ."*
>>>
>>> A few other quotes which demonstrate Adams’ thoughts about Jesus are
>>> below.
>>>
>>> On April 18, 1775, a British soldier ordered him, John Hancock, and
>>> others to “disperse in the name of George the Sovereign King of England.
>>> Adams responded to him:
>>>
>>> *“We recognize no sovereign but God, and no king but Jesus!”*
>>>
>>> In an October 13, 1789 address to the military, he said:
>>>
>>> *"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with
>>> human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition,
>>> revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution
>>> as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral
>>> and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any
>>> other."*
>>>
>>> In a letter to Thomas Jefferson dated June 28, 1813, Adams said:
>>>
>>> “*The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence
>>> were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then
>>> believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity
>>> are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.*” 
>>> –*John
>>> Adams; June 28, 1813, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson.*
>>>
>>> *"Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for
>>> their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the
>>> precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to
>>> temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity
>>> towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty
>>> God ... What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be."  **Diary
>>> and Autobiography of John Adams, Vol. III, p. 9*
>>>
>>> *=====*
>>>
>>> *"I now offer you the outline of the plan they have suggested. Let an
>>> association be formed to be denominated 'The Christian Constitutional
>>> Society,' its object to be first: The support of the Christian religion.
>>> Second: The support of the United States."*
>>> *Alexander Hamilton, 1802 To John Baynard*
>>>
>>> =====
>>>
>>> *"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a
>>> nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a
>>> conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift
>>> of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I
>>> tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice
>>> cannot sleep forever; That a revolution of the wheel of fortune, a change
>>> of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by
>>> Supernatural influence! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side
>>> with us in that event."  **Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of
>>> Virginia, Query XVIII, p. 237.*
>>>
>>> *=====*
>>>
>>> "*While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and
>>> soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of
>>> religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our
>>> highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.*" --*The
>>> Writings of George Washington, pp. 342-3*
>>>
>>> *=====*
>>>
>>> *The plan of education proposed is anti-Christian, and therefore
>>> repugnant to the law....The purest principles of morality are to be taught.
>>> Where are they found? Whoever searches for them must go to the source from
>>> which a Christian man derives his faith -- the Bible...There is an
>>> obligation to teach what the Bible alone can teach, viz. a pure system of
>>> morality...*
>>>
>>> *Both in the Old and New Testaments [religious instruction's] importance
>>> is recognized. In the Old it is said, 'Thou shalt diligently teach them to
>>> thy children,' and the New, 'Suffer the little children to come unto me and
>>> forbid them not...' No fault can be found with Girard for wishing a marble
>>> college to bear his name forever, but it is not valuable unless it has a
>>> fragrance of Christianity about it.*
>>>
>>> The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every respect there
>>> shall be a separation of Church and State. Rather, it studiously defines
>>> the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union
>>> or dependency one on the other.  *Vidal v. Girard's Executors*, 43 U.S.
>>> 126,132 (1844).
>>>
>>> *Christianity...is not to be maliciously and openly reviled and
>>> blasphemed against, to the annoyance of believers or the injury of the
>>> public...It is unnecessary for us, however, to consider the establishment
>>> of a school or college, for the propagation of...Deism, or any other form
>>> of infidelity.*
>>> *Such a case is not to be presumed to exist in a Christian country...Why
>>> may not laymen instruct in the general principles of Christianity as well
>>> as ecclesiastics...*
>>>
>>> *And we cannot overlook the blessings, which such [lay] men by their
>>> conduct, as well as their instructions, may, nay must, impart to their
>>> youthful pupils. Why may not the Bible, and especially the New Testament,
>>> without note or comment, be read and taught as a divine revelation in the
>>> [school] -- its general precepts expounded, its evidences explained and its
>>> glorious principles of morality inculcated?...*
>>>
>>> *Where can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so
>>> perfectly as from the New Testament?*
>>>
>>> *It is also said, and truly, **that the Christian religion is a part of
>>> the common law of Pennsylvania...  **Id.*  (Emphasis Added)  *(By
>>> Justice Storey)  Vidal v. Girard's Executors, 43 U.S. 126,132-133 (1844). *
>>>
>>>
>>> ======
>>>
>>>
>>> *That is the common sense of the matter. Otherwise the state and
>>> religion would be aliens to each other -- hostile, suspicious, and even
>>> unfriendly.  **Zorach v. Clauson*,   (1952)
>>>
>>> =========
>>>
>>>
>>> *“Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and
>>> embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it
>>> should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization
>>> and our institutions are emphatically Christian.*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *No purpose of action against religion can be imputed to any
>>> legislation, state or national, because this is a religious people. This is
>>> historically true. From the discovery of this continent to the present
>>> hour, there is a single voice making this affirmation.The commission to
>>> Christopher Columbus...[recited] that 'it is hoped that by God's assistance
>>> some of the continents and islands in the ocean will be discovered...'The
>>> first colonial grant made to Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584...and the grant
>>> authorizing him to enact statutes for the government of the proposed colony
>>> provided that they 'be not against the true Christian faith...'The first
>>> charter of Virginia, granted by King James I in 1606...commenced the grant
>>> in these words: '...in propagating of Christian religion to such people as
>>> yet live in darkness...'Language of similar import may be found in the
>>> subsequent charters of that colony...in 1609 and 1611; and the same is true
>>> of the various charters granted to the other colonies. In language more or
>>> less emphatic is the establishment of the Christian religion declared to be
>>> one of the purposes of the grant. The celebrated compact made by the
>>> Pilgrims in the Mayflower, 1620, recites: 'Having undertaken for the Glory
>>> of God, and advancement of the Christian faith...a voyage to plant the
>>> first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...'The Fundamental Orders of
>>> Connecticut, under which a provisional government was instituted in
>>> 1638-1639, commence with this declaration: 'And well knowing where a people
>>> are gathered together, the Word of God requires that to maintain the peace
>>> and union...there should be an orderly and decent government established
>>> according to God...to maintain and preserve the liberty and purity of the
>>> Gospel of our Lord Jesus which we now profess...of the said Gospel [which]
>>> is now practiced amongst us.'In the Charter of Privileges granted by
>>> William Penn to the province of Pennsylvania, in 1701, it is recited:
>>> '...No people can be truly happy, though under the greatest enjoyment of
>>> civil liberties, if abridged of...their religious profession and
>>> worship...'Coming nearer to the present time, the Declaration of
>>> Independence recognizes the presence of the Divine in human affairs in
>>> these words:'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
>>> created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
>>> unalienable rights...appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the
>>> rectitude of our intentions...And for the support of this Declaration, with
>>> firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to
>>> each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.'We find
>>> everywhere a clear recognition of the same truth...because of a general
>>> recognition of this truth [that we are a Christian nation], the question
>>> has seldom been presented to the courts...There is no dissonance in these
>>> declarations. There is a universal language pervading them all, having one
>>> meaning; they affirm and reaffirm that this is a religious nation. These
>>> are not individual sayings, declarations of private persons: they are
>>> organic utterances; they speak the voice of the entire people.While because
>>> of a general recognition of this truth the question has seldom been
>>> presented to the courts, yet we find that in Updegraph v. the Commonwealth,
>>> it was decided that, Christianity, general Christianity, is, and always has
>>> been, a part of the common law...not Christianity with an established
>>> church...but Christianity with liberty of conscience to all men.And in The
>>> People v. Ruggles, Chancellor Kent, the great commentator on American law,
>>> speaking as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, said: 'The
>>> people of this State, in common with the people of this country, profess
>>> the general doctrines of Christianity, as the rule of their faith and
>>> practice...We are a Christian people, and the morality of the country is
>>> deeply engrafted upon Christianity, and not upon the doctrines or worship
>>> of those impostors [other religions].'And in the famous case of Vidal v.
>>> Girard's Executors, this court observed: 'It is also said, and truly, that
>>> the Christian religion is a part of the common law...'If we pass beyond
>>> these matters to a view of American life as expressed by its laws, its
>>> business, its customs and its society, we find everywhere a clear
>>> recognition of the same truth. Among other matters note the following: The
>>> form of oath universally prevailing, concluding with an appeal to the
>>> Almighty; the custom of opening sessions of all deliberative bodies and
>>> most conventions with prayer; the prefatory words of all will, 'In the name
>>> of God, amen', the laws respecting the observance of the Sabbath, with the
>>> general cessation of all secular business, and the closing of courts,
>>> legislatures, and other similar public assemblies on that day; the churches
>>> and church organizations which abound in every city, town and hamlet; the
>>> multitude of charitable organizations existing everywhere under Christian
>>> auspices; the gigantic missionary associations, with general support, and
>>> aiming to establish Christian missions in every quarter of the globe.These,
>>> and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial
>>> declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian
>>> nation...we find everywhere a clear recognition of the same truth.The
>>> happiness of a people and the good order and preservation of civil
>>> government essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality.Religion,
>>> morality, and knowledge [are] necessary to good government, the
>>> preservation of liberty, and the happiness of mankind.”    **Church of
>>> the Holy Trinity v. United States,*  (1892)
>>>
>>>
>>> *Issued by President George Washington, at the request of Congress, on
>>> October 3, 1789*
>>>
>>> *By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation.*
>>>
>>> *Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of
>>> Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly
>>> to implore His protection and favor; and—Whereas both Houses of Congress
>>> have, by their joint committee, requested me “to recommend to the people of
>>> the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed
>>> by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of
>>> Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to
>>> establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:”*
>>>
>>> *Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of
>>> November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service
>>> of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the
>>> good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in
>>> rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and
>>> protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a
>>> nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favor, able
>>> interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late
>>> war; for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty which we have
>>> since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been
>>> enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and
>>> happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the
>>> civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we
>>> have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all
>>> the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.*
>>>
>>> *And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and
>>> supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to
>>> pardon our national and other trangressions; to enable us all, whether in
>>> public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties
>>> properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to
>>> all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and
>>> constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to
>>> protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown
>>> kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and
>>> concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue,
>>> and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally, to grant
>>> unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to
>>> be best.*
>>>
>>> *Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in
>>> the year of our Lord 1789.*
>>> George Washington
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:50 PM, plainolamerican <plainol...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> No amount of revisionist history is going to change what we are as a
>>> Nation
>>> ---
>>> back at you.
>>>
>>> Benjamin Franklin
>>>
>>> Although Franklin received religious training, his nature forced him to
>>> rebel against the irrational tenets of his parents Christianity. His
>>> Autobiography revels his skepticism, “My parents had given me betimes
>>> religions impressions, and I received from my infancy a pious education in
>>> the principles of Calvinism. But scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of
>>> age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I
>>> found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of
>>> Revelation itself.
>>>
>>> “. . . Some books against Deism fell into my hands. . . It happened that
>>> they wrought an effect on my quite contrary to what was intended by them;
>>> for the arguments of the Deists, which were quoted to be refuted, appeared
>>> to me much stronger than the refutations; in short, I soon became a through
>>> Deist.”
>>>
>>> In an essay on “Toleration,” Franklin wrote:
>>>
>>> “If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in
>>> Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been
>>> persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians
>>> thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practiced it on one
>>> another. The first Protestants of the Church of England blamed persecution
>>> in the Romish church, but practiced it upon the Puritans. These found it
>>> wrong in the Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here
>>> [England] and in New England.”
>>>
>>> Dr. Priestley, an intimate friend of Franklin, wrote of him:
>>>
>>> “It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin’s general good
>>> character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in
>>> Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others
>>> unbelievers” (Priestley’s Autobiography)
>>>
>>> Thomas Paine
>>>
>>> This freethinker and author of several books, influenced more early
>>> Americans than any other writer. Although he held Deist beliefs, he wrote
>>> in his famous The Age of Reason:
>>>
>>> “I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the
>>> Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Protestant church, nor by any
>>> church that I know of. My own mind is my church. “
>>>
>>> “Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no
>>> more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to
>>> reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called
>>> Christianity. “
>>> The U.S. Constitution
>>>
>>> The most convincing evidence that our government did not ground itself
>>> upon Christianity comes from the very document that defines it– the United
>>> States Constitution.
>>>
>>> If indeed our Framers had aimed to found a Christian republic, it would
>>> seem highly unlikely that they would have forgotten to leave out their
>>> Christian intentions in the Supreme law of the land. In fact, nowhere in
>>> the Constitution do we have a single mention of Christianity, God, Jesus,
>>> or any Supreme Being. There occurs only two references to religion and they
>>> both use exclusionary wording. The 1st Amendment’s says, “Congress shall
>>> make no law respecting an establishment of religion. . .” and in Article
>>> VI, Section 3, “. . . no religious test shall ever be required as a
>>> qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.”
>>>
>>> Thomas Jefferson interpreted the 1st Amendment in his famous letter to
>>> the Danbury Baptist Association in January 1, 1802:
>>>
>>> “I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American
>>> people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting
>>> an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’
>>> thus building a wall of separation between church and State.”
>>>
>>> Some Religious activists try to extricate the concept of separation
>>> between church and State by claiming that those words do not occur in the
>>> Constitution. Indeed they do not, but neither does it exactly say “freedom
>>> of religion,” yet the First Amendment implies both.
>>>
>>> As Thomas Jefferson wrote in his Autobiography, in reference to the
>>> Virginia Act for Religious Freedom:
>>>
>>> “Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan
>>> of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting
>>> “Jesus Christ,” so that it would read “A departure from the plan of Jesus
>>> Christ, the holy author of our religion;” the insertion was rejected by the
>>> great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle
>>> of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan,
>>> the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination.”
>>>
>>> James Madison, perhaps the greatest supporter for separation of church
>>> and State, and whom many refer to as the father of the Constitution, also
>>> held similar views which he expressed in his letter to Edward Livingston,
>>> 10 July 1822:
>>>
>>> “And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past
>>> one has done, in shewing that religion & Govt will both exist in greater
>>> purity, the less they are mixed together.”
>>>
>>> Today, if ever our government needed proof that the separation of church
>>> and State works to ensure the freedom of religion, one only need to look at
>>> the plethora of Churches, temples, and shrines that exist in the cities and
>>> towns throughout the United States. Only a secular government, divorced
>>> from religion could possibly allow such tolerant diversity.
>>> The Declaration of Independence
>>>
>>> Many Christians who think of America as founded upon Christianity
>>> usually present the Declaration as “proof.” The reason appears obvious: the
>>> document mentions God. However, the God in the Declaration does not
>>> describe Christianity’s God. It describes “the Laws of Nature and of
>>> Nature’s God.” This nature’s view of God agrees with deist philosophy but
>>> any attempt to use the Declaration as a support for Christianity will fail
>>> for this reason alone.
>>> [image: Article XI from the Treaty of Tripoli]
>>> <http://www.earlyamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/titleXI.jpg>
>>>
>>> Article XI from the Treaty of Tripoli
>>>
>>> Article XI from the Treaty of Tripoli
>>>
>>> More significantly, the Declaration does not represent the law of the
>>> land as it came before the Constitution. The Declaration aimed at
>>> announcing their separation from Great Britain and listed the various
>>> grievances with the “thirteen united States of America.” The grievances
>>> against Great Britain no longer hold, and we have more than thirteen
>>> states. Today, the Declaration represents an important historical document
>>> about rebellious intentions against Great Britain at a time before the
>>> formation of our independent government. Although the Declaration may have
>>> influential power, it may inspire the lofty thoughts of poets, and judges
>>> may mention it in their summations, it holds no legal power today. Our
>>> presidents, judges and policemen must take an oath to uphold the
>>> Constitution, but never to the Declaration of Independence.
>>>
>>> Of course the Declaration depicts a great political document, as it
>>> aimed at a future government upheld by citizens instead of a religious
>>> monarchy. It observed that all men “are created equal” meaning that we all
>>> come inborn with the abilities of life, liberty and the pursuit of
>>> happiness. That “to secure these rights, governments are instituted among
>>> men.” The Declaration says nothing about our rights secured by
>>> Christianity, nor does it imply anything about a Christian foundation.
>>> Treaty of Tripoli
>>>
>>> Unlike governments of the past, the American Fathers set up a government
>>> divorced from religion. The establishment of a secular government did not
>>> require a reflection to themselves about its origin; they knew this as an
>>> unspoken given. However, as the U.S. delved into international affairs, few
>>> foreign nations knew about the intentions of America. For this reason, an
>>> insight from at a little known but legal document written in the late 1700s
>>> explicitly reveals the secular nature of the United States to a foreign
>>> nation. Officially called the “Treaty of peace and friendship between the
>>> United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli, of Barbary,”
>>> most refer to it as simply the Treaty of Tripoli. In Article 11, it states:
>>> [image: Joel Barlow, U.S. Consul General of Algiers]
>>> <http://www.earlyamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/barlow.jpg>
>>>
>>> Joel Barlow, U.S. Consul General of Algiers
>>>
>>> Joel Barlow, U.S. Consul General of Algiers
>>> Copyright National Portait Gallery Smithsonian Institution/Art Resource
>>> NY
>>>
>>> “As 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 tranquillity, of Musselmen; and as
>>> the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against
>>> any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising
>>> from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony
>>> existing between the two countries.”
>>>
>>> The preliminary treaty began with a signing on 4 November, 1796 (the end
>>> of George Washington’s last term as president). Joel Barlow, the American
>>> diplomat served as counsel to Algiers and held responsibility for the
>>> treaty negotiations. Barlow had once served under Washington as a chaplain
>>> in the revolutionary army. He became good friends with Paine, Jefferson,
>>> and read Enlightenment literature. Later he abandoned Christian orthodoxy
>>> for rationalism and became an advocate of secular government. Barlow, along
>>> with his associate, Captain Richard O’Brien, et al, translated and modified
>>> the Arabic version of the treaty into English. From this came the added
>>> Amendment 11. Barlow forwarded the treaty to U.S. legislators for approval
>>> in 1797. Timothy Pickering, the secretary of state, endorsed it and John
>>> Adams concurred (now during his presidency), sending the document on to the
>>> Senate. The Senate approved the treaty on June 7, 1797, and officially
>>> ratified by the Senate with John Adams signature on 10 June, 1797. All
>>> during this multi-review process, the wording of Article 11 never raised
>>> the slightest concern. The treaty even became public through its
>>> publication in The Philadelphia Gazette on 17 June 1797.
>>>
>>> So here we have a clear admission by the United States that our
>>> government did not found itself upon Christianity. Unlike the Declaration
>>> of Independence, this treaty represented U.S. law as all treaties do
>>> according to the Constitution (see Article VI, Sect. 2).
>>>
>>> Although the Christian exclusionary wording in the Treaty of Tripoli
>>> only lasted for eight years and no longer has legal status, it clearly
>>> represented the feelings of our Founding Fathers at the beginning of the
>>> U.S. government.
>>> Common Law
>>> <http://www.earlyamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/treatyback.jpg>
>>>
>>> ...
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