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now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 ->
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verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make
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legal/us/code/title-36/chapter-2003/section-200302.md

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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "36 U.S.C. § 200302"
+description: "Purposes"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 36
+title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
+chapter_number: "2003"
+chapter_name: "SONS OF UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR"
+section: "200302"
+citation: "36 U.S.C. § 200302"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc36@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t36/s200302"
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+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 36 U.S.C. § 200302 - Purposes
+
+## Text
+
+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.
+
+(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1452.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 20030236:533.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.