The Big Lie: Jefferson and War with the Barbary States

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.

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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)

Samuel Smith – to Commodore Richard Dale, US Navy (20 May 1801)

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Yusuf Qaramanli, Pasha and Bey of Tripoli (21 May 1801)

James Madison – Circular Letter to American Consuls, Mediterranean (21 May 1801)

Circular issued by James L. Cathcart, U.S. Consul, Tripoli (15 May 1801)

James Cathcart – Letter to James Madison (16 May 1801)

Clements Library – The Tripolitan War

Thomas Jefferson – First Annual Message to Congress (8 Dec 1801)

Act for Protection of Commerce and Seaman of the United States against the Tripolitan Corsairs (6 Feb 1802)

X Post – The Jeffersonian View in 3 points

John Jay, Letter to Gouverneur Morris (24 Sept 1783)

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Michael Boldin

Michael Boldin [send him email] is the founder of the Tenth Amendment Center. He was raised in Milwaukee, WI, and currently resides in Los Angeles, CA. Follow him on twitter - @michaelboldin and Facebook.

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