 | Seventh-Day Adventists - 1916 - 804 pages
...Sunday law for either the District of Columbia or any other part of the American domain. The government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded upon the Christian religion.— Treaty with Tripoli, 1797. An Inverted Pyramid BY LA SMITH THE various... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - Political Science - 1918 - 508 pages
...1796, during the administration of Washington, we find this significant declaration: "As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense...the laws, religion, or tranquillity of Mussulmen, ... it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - Social sciences - 1919 - 474 pages
...the text of the treaty between the United States and Tripoli: "As the Government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion;...the laws, religion, or tranquillity of Mussulmen, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an... | |
 | Theodore Schroeder - Blasphemy - 1919 - 460 pages
...communicated to the Senate May 26, 1797.15 "Article 2 [of this Treaty] : As the government of tJif United States of America is not in any sense founded...in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religions, or tranquillity of Mussnl14 See Appendix to Cooper's Law Libel, p. 82: Jefferson's Works,... | |
 | Religious Liberty Association (Washington, D.C.) - Freedom of religion - 1920 - 144 pages
...see in this a forerunner of the statement made in the treaty with Tripoli in 1797 : " The Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." — "American State Papers," Class I, Foreign Relations, Vol. II, p. 18. That was no slur on the Christian... | |
 | Talcott Williams - Eastern question - 1921 - 356 pages
...when Washington was still President; ARTICLE XI. As the Government of the United States of Ame-ica is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion;...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... | |
 | Oscar Solomon Straus - Ambassadors - 1922 - 530 pages
...between the United States and Tripoli, negotiated by Joel Barlow in 1796. It read: As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense...character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility of Musselman; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility... | |
 | Jesse Lee Bennett - American literature - 1925 - 360 pages
...themselves, but, according to their stations, to prevent it in others. Treaty with Tripoli. The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded upon the Christian religion. Answer to address presented by the Baptists of Virginia. If I could have... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1926 - 310 pages
...would like to read. They are taken from the American Sentinel of Religious Liberty. As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion, it is not the legitimate province of the legislature to determine what religion is true or what false.... | |
 | United States - 1926 - 584 pages
...religious opinions shall ever interrupt the harmony existing between the two countries, "As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." A curious treaty of friendship and commerce was negotiated by Edmund Roberts* with "His Majesty, the... | |
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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... 
