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type: "LegalText"
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title: "36 U.S.C. § 153302"
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description: "Purposes"
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kind: "code_section"
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title_number: 36
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title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
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chapter_number: "1533"
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chapter_name: "NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION"
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section: "153302"
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citation: "36 U.S.C. § 153302"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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# 36 U.S.C. § 153302 - Purposes
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## Text
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The purposes of the corporation are patriotic, historical, and educational, and include those intended or designed—
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(1) to perpetuate the memory of the men who, by their services or sacrifices during the war of the American Revolution, achieved the independence of the American people;
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(2) to unite and promote fellowship among their descendants;
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(3) to inspire them and the community at large with a more profound reverence for the principles of the government founded by our forefathers;
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(4) to encourage historical research in relation to the American Revolution;
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(5) to acquire and preserve the records of the individual services of the patriots of the war, as well as documents, relics, and landmarks;
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(6) to mark the scenes of the American Revolution by appropriate memorials;
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(7) to celebrate the anniversaries of the prominent events of the war and of the Revolutionary period;
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(8) to foster true patriotism;
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(9) to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom; and
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(10) to carry out the purposes expressed in the preamble to the Constitution of our country and the injunctions of Washington in his farewell address to the American people.
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(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1424.)
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## Notes
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Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 15330236:20b.June 9, 1906, ch. 3065, § 2, 34 Stat. 227. Before clause (1), the words “objects” and “declared to be” are omitted as unnecessary.
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