Daily Kos: First Time Diarist: It Can't Happen Here (updated)

Daily Kos: First Time Diarist: It Can't Happen Here (updated): "Sigh - again I point at Article XI of Treaty with Bey of Tripoli, signed in late 1796, ratified by the US Senate in 1797, with 7 members who had been in the House or Senate during the Congress that drafted the Bill of Rights. Adams made clear his desire for ratification of the Treaty, and there was a lot of coverage in contemporaneous news accounts, including of Article XI, which just so happens to read

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 tranquility 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.

So regardless of the expressions of the erectors of this monstrosity, they are WRONG on the history, totally misguided as to the intent of the F"