Religion in the Original 13 Colonies

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[Monorprise]

“I’m not sure how you mean that. We have many elections in which we elect federal, state and local officials. Whether you want to call that a Federal election or not is up to you. But we are electing federal officials in almost all elections.”

What I mean is that there are no Election in the United States run by the Federal Government or held between the whole population of the United States.

Tn the 3 cases in which you are “Electing Federal Officials” President, house, and senate. You are in fact electing someone entirely from and within your State.

As you know In presidential elections nobody actually votes for the president but instead your voting for your state’s electors.

In the senate your voting for someone running state wide and as you know originally we were never even suppose to do that.
In the House elections your voting for someone out of your Congressional district which is not only entirely within the state but is itself defined by your state.

” That being the case, the Federal government certainly has a say in what manner the Federal officials are elected.”
There was no explicit authority in the Constitution for the federal Government to have any special control over the election of their officials prior to the 14th amendment, and even that is questionable.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

The U.S. Constitution states when the legislatures will stand for election and the manner in which they are elected. As you noted, the state legislatures used to appoint the Senators but the 17th amendment did away with that. While these elections are run locally, they are done under the federal rules and for federal jobs. That means the Federal government does have a say so in how the Federal legislature is elected. Along with the President.

[movwater]

“As even a casual examination of the annotated translation of 1930 shows, the Barlow translation is at best a poor attempt at a paraphrase or summary of the sense of the Arabic; and even as such its defects throughout are obvious and glaring. 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. There is no Article 11. 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”

From: Treaty with Tripoli 1796 : Hunter Miller's Notes at:http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/bar1796n.asp#n3

[movwater]

See: Avalon Project - The Barbary Treaties at: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/barmenu.asp