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type: "LegalText"
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title: "36 U.S.C. § 200302"
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description: "Purposes"
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jurisdiction: "us"
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corpus: "united_states_code"
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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: "2003"
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chapter_name: "SONS OF UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR"
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section: "200302"
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citation: "36 U.S.C. § 200302"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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source: "official"
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# 36 U.S.C. § 200302 - Purposes
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## Text
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The purposes of the corporation are—
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(1) to perpetuate the memory of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the men who saved the Union in 1861 to 1865;
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(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;
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(3) to cooperate in honoring all those who have served our country patriotically in any war;
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(4) to teach patriotism, the duties of citizenship, the true history of our country, and the love and honor of our flag;
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(5) to oppose every tendency or movement that would weaken loyalty to, destroy, or impair our constitutional Union; and
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(6) to inculcate and broadly sustain the American principles of representative government, equal rights, and impartial justice for all.
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(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1452.)
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## Notes
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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.
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