36 USC § 200302 - Purposes

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title: "36 USC § 200302 - Purposes"
title_number: 36
title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
section_number: "200302"
section_name: "Purposes"
chapter_number: 2003
chapter_name: "SONS OF UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR"
part_number: "B"
part_name: "Organizations"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1452.)"
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# § 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.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1452.)

| RevisedSection | 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.