Reply #43: Read the Treaty of Tripoli - 1796

[Manifestor_of_Light]

A Peace Treaty between the United States and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary.

Quote from Wikipedia: However it originated, it was undeniably a part of the treaty as approved by President John Adams and Secretary of State Timothy Pickering and ratified by the Senate by a unanimous vote.

Article 11, reads:

"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 tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan 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."

Unquote.

Treaties are the law of the land, just as much as case law and statute law.