The White House sponsoring a mega "Christian" prayer event on the National Mall violates my rights...

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Article 11 of the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli is a famous historical clause declaring that the United States government is "in no sense founded on the Christian religion." Negotiated by American diplomat Joel Barlow and signed by President John Adams, it was intended to reassure Muslim nations that the US was a secular state, not a Christian crusader power.

The Treaty of Tripoli, signed in 1797, was a peace and friendship agreement between the U.S. and Tripoli (now Libya) designed to protect American shipping from Barbary pirate attacks. It is best known for Article 11, which stated that the U.S. was not founded on the Christian religion, aiming to assure Tripoli that the U.S. was a secular state.