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Was there any backlash from religious communities when the U.S. Senate unanimously ratified the Treaty of Tripoli (1797) which included the phrase "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion"?

by /u/alschei in /r/AskHistorians

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