In response to Timothy Carroll, I refer you to Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli, which was approved by the Senate on June 7, 1797, and signed by President John Adams on June 10, 1797. While it no ...

This is in response to "Nation was not Founded on Religious Grounds" (Dec. 9). Article 11 of the 1796 Treaty of Tripoli was used as evidence of our nation's nonreligious founding. There are problems ...

Shortly before the justices of the Supreme Court questioned lawyers in the Ten Commandments case, which may establish whether governmental public display establishes a religion and therefore ...

The religious right disrespects the memory of the founding fathers when they attempt to undermine the separation of church and state. As the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli (developed by George Washington's ...

Prayer during any and all government functions should be considered unconstitutional, per the First Amendment. The Founding Fathers did not want the American government to be Christian or any other ...

The Forum's editorial of March 20 ("Freethinkers hang their stone on a thin reed") discussed the monument we plan for Fargo's City Hall mall. The inscription on the monument will be taken from the ...

And it never has been: The most striking is the Treaty of Tripoli, ratified by the U.S. Senate in 1797. Article 11 states: "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, ...

If we are to believe Mr. Smith, (Mr. Half truth himself), the fact that article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli 1797 does not exist is a, "so what" ! Even if one chooses to believe that the intent of the ...