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The United States was founded on the premise of tolerance and freedom for everyone (except slaves at the time)...but that's another story. They had seen what could come from a government in bed with the church and did not want a repeat performance. That would explain to an extent the statement in the Treaty of Tripoli. Also, Jefferson's advocation of the separation of church and state. It's not to say that there should be only secularism but in matters of government no one group should be favored over the other, to declare the US a Christian state would do such.
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