# § 130102. 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 doing honor to all those who have served our country patriotically in any way;
**(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.
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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1371.)
| RevisedSection | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 130102 | 36:78b. | June 17, 1959, Pub. L. 86–47, § 3, 73 Stat. 77. |
In clause (5), the words “destroy, or impair” are substituted for “make for the destruction or impairment of” to eliminate unnecessary words.