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Joel Barlow

American poet, diplomat, politician and businessman (1754–1812)

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Jan 14, 2026
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How was the Treaty of Tripoli used in twentieth- and twenty-first-century church–state litigation and advocacy?

The 1797 Treaty of Tripoli—specifically Article 11’s line that “the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion”—has been repeatedly mobilized in t...

Jan 14, 2026

What is the provenance and textual history of Joel Barlow’s English translation of the Treaty of Tripoli?

Joel Barlow served as the American agent who produced the English translation of the 1796 Treaty of Peace and Friendship with Tripoli; the treaty’s original text in the Department of State files is in...

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