36 U.S.C. § 200302

Current through P.L. 118-107 (published on www.congress.gov on 11/21/2024)

Section 200302 - Purposes

The purposes of the corporation are-

(1) to perpetuate the memory of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the men who saved the Union in 1861 to 1865;

(2) to assist in every practicable way in preserving, and making available for research, documents and records pertaining to the Grand Army of the Republic and its members;

(3) to cooperate in honoring all those who have served our country patriotically in any war;

(4) to teach patriotism, the duties of citizenship, the true history of our country, and the love and honor of our flag;

(5) to oppose every tendency or movement that would weaken loyalty to, destroy, or impair our constitutional Union; and

(6) to inculcate and broadly sustain the American principles of representative government, equal rights, and impartial justice for all.

36 U.S.C. § 200302

Pub. L. 105-225, 112 Stat. 1452.

HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Revised Section	Source (U.S. Code)	Source (Statutes at Large)
200302	36:533.	Aug. 20, 1954, ch. 774, §3, 68 Stat. 749.

In clause (5), the words "destroy, or impair" are substituted for "or make for the destruction or impairment of" to eliminate unnecessary words.