page_title: Treaty of Tripoli
hierarchical_section_title: Treaty of Tripoli
caption_attribution_description: English: This image is an edited version of scans of two pages of a reprint of the Treaty of Tripoli as communicated to Congress in 1797. This reprint was sanctioned by Congress on March 2, 1831 and printed the following year by Gales &amp; Seaton. It is a part of the American State Papers publication, ISBN 1-57588-404-6, Class I, Foreign Relations, Volume II, pages 18 &amp; 19. The edits consist of joining the text together from two separate pages and cropping.
context_page_description: The Treaty of Tripoli was signed in 1796. It was the first treaty between the United States of America and Tripoli to secure commercial shipping rights and protect American ships in the Mediterranean Sea from local Barbary pirates.
  It was authored by Joel Barlow, an ardent Jeffersonian republican, and signed in Tripoli on November 4, 1796, and at Algiers on January 3, 1797. It was ratified by the United States Senate unanimously without debate on June 7, 1797, taking effect June 10, 1797, with the signature of President John Adams.
  The Treaty is often cited, in discussions regarding the role of religion in United States government, for a clause in Article 11 of the English language American version which states that "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
  The treaty was broken by Tripoli and after the First Barbary War a superseding treaty, the Treaty of Peace and Amity, was signed on July 4, 1805.
context_section_description: The Treaty of Tripoli (Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary) was signed in 1796. It was the first treaty between the United States of America and Tripoli (now Libya) to secure commercial shipping rights and protect American ships in the Mediterranean Sea from local Barbary pirates. 
  It was authored by Joel Barlow, an ardent Jeffersonian republican, and signed in Tripoli on November 4, 1796, and at Algiers (for a third-party witness) on January 3, 1797. It was ratified by the United States Senate unanimously without debate on June 7, 1797, taking effect June 10, 1797, with the signature of President John Adams.
  The Treaty is often cited, in discussions regarding the role of religion in United States government, for a clause in Article 11 of the English language American version which states that "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
   The treaty was broken by Tripoli and after the First Barbary War a superseding treaty, the Treaty of Peace and Amity, was signed on July 4, 1805.
caption: The Treaty of Tripoli as presented to Congress
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