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Both left and right have been more than happy to perpetuate a huge lie in order to justify unilateral executive war powers never delegated to the president in the Constitution. They do this by telling a false story of how Thomas Jefferson responded to the Barbary Pirates in 1801. Learn what really happened with a timeline of events.

Path to Liberty: January 15, 2024

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John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. VI (1767)

Monticello – First Barbary War

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Monroe (11 Nov 1784)

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Horatio Gates (13 Dec 1784)

John Adams – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (3 July 1786)

Treaty with Tripoli (1796)

James Cathcart, Letter to Sec of State (7 Oct 1800)

James Cathcart – Circular to the Consuls and Agents of the United States (21 Feb 1801)

An Act Providing for a Naval Peace Establishment (3 Mar 1801)

Notes of a Cabinet Meeting (15 May 1801)

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