# -A full text of the treaty may be found here.
#- All agree that there are vagaries involving the Arabic text of the treaty, which was translated into English by the American official, John Barlow. A skeptical site here offers the following:

[i]The Barlow translation is at best a poor attempt at a paraphrase or
summary of the sense of the Arabic . . . . Most extraordinary (and
wholly unexplained) is the fact that Article 11 of the Barlow
translation, with its famous phrase, 'the government of the United
States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian
Religion,' does not exist at all [in the Arabic]. There is no Article
11 [in the Arabic]. The Arabic text which is betwe...

# -A full text of the treaty may be found here.
#- All agree that there are vagaries involving the Arabic text of the treaty, which was translated into English by the American official, John Barlow. A skeptical site here offers the following:

The Barlow translation is at best a poor attempt at a paraphrase or
summary of the sense of the Arabic . . . . Most extraordinary (and
wholly unexplained) is the fact that Article 11 of the Barlow
translation, with its famous phrase, 'the government of the United
States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian
Religion,' does not exist at all [in the Arabic]. There is no Article
11 [in the Arabic]. The Arabic text which is between Articles 10 and 12
is in form a letter, crude and flamboyant and withal quite unimportant,
from the Dey of Algiers to the Pasha of Tripoli. How that script came
to be written and to be regarded, as in the Barlow translation, as
Article 11 of the treaty as there written, is a mystery and seemingly
must remain so. Nothing in the diplomatic correspondence of the time
throws any light whatever on the point.

The Treaty was renegotiated 8 yrs. later. Article 11 was deleted.