---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 200302"
title: "36"
title_heading: "Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations"
number: "200302"
heading: "Purposes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/36/200302"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Patriotic and National Organizations"
  - "Part B — Organizations"
  - "Chapter 2003 — Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War"
---

# §200302. Purposes


The purposes of the [corporation](/usc/36/220501.md?p=b-7) 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.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1452.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 200302 | 36:533. | 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.