---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 153302"
title: "36"
title_heading: "Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations"
number: "153302"
heading: "Purposes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/36/153302"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Patriotic and National Organizations"
  - "Part B — Organizations"
  - "Chapter 1533 — National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution"
---

# §153302. Purposes


The purposes of the [corporation](/usc/36/220501.md?p=b-7) are patriotic, historical, and educational, and include those intended or designed—

- (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;
- (2) to unite and promote fellowship among their descendants;
- (3) to inspire them and the community at large with a more profound reverence for the principles of the government founded by our forefathers;
- (4) to encourage historical research in relation to the American Revolution;
- (5) to acquire and preserve the records of the individual services of the patriots of the war, as well as documents, relics, and landmarks;
- (6) to mark the scenes of the American Revolution by appropriate memorials;
- (7) to celebrate the anniversaries of the prominent events of the war and of the Revolutionary period;
- (8) to foster true patriotism;
- (9) to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom; and
- (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.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1424.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 153302 | 36:20b. | June 9, 1906, ch. 3065, § 2, 34 Stat. 227. |

Before clause (1), the words “objects” and “declared to be” are omitted as unnecessary.