{"data":{"id":"us/36-u.s.c.-200302","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"36 U.S.C. § 200302","heading":"Purposes","body":"The purposes of the corporation 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.","path":["Title 36—PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS","CHAPTER 2003—SONS OF UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR"],"source_url":"https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/103/xml_usc36@119-103.zip","current_through":"Public Law 119-103 (09/02/2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-10T05:59:24Z","sha256":"2c1fa114c7ffeb35d8e3a76a2d35bb36e0fd83415c9f33618f99c58c6f244fbc","source_id":"us","stale":false,"prev":"us/36-u.s.c.-200301","next":"us/36-u.s.c.-200303"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}