---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 C.F.R. § 2400.1"
title: "45"
number: "2400.1"
heading: "Purposes."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/45/2400.1"
---

# §2400.1. Purposes.

- (a) **The purposes of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Program are to—**
  - (1) Provide incentives for master's degree level graduate study of the history, principles, and development of the United States Constitution by outstanding in-service teachers of American history, American government, social studies, and political science in grades 7-12 and by outstanding college graduates who plan to become teachers of the same subjects; and
  - (2) Strengthen teaching in the nation's secondary schools about the principles, framing, ratification, and subsequent history of the United States Constitution.
- (b) The Foundation may from time to time operate its own programs and undertake other closely-related activities to fulfill these goals.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 20 U.S.C. 4501 et seq., unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 61 FR 46734, Sept. 5, 1996, unless otherwise noted.