The Treaty of Tripoli [View all]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli

Negotiated during the term of President George Washington, ratified by Congress during the term of John Adams. And famous for a clause you don't normally see in diplomatic exchanges:

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 tranquility, 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.

Case settled?