36 U.S.C. § 153302 — Purposes

submitted 28 years ago by Pub. L. 105-225 to r/title-36-PATRIOTIC-AND-NATIONAL-OBSERVANCES-CEREMONIES-AND-ORGANIZATIONS · 186 words · no verdicts yet

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The corporation's purposes are patriotic, historical, and educational. They include remembering Revolutionary War patriots, supporting their descendants, preserving history, and supporting American freedom and government.

The corporation's purposes are patriotic, historical, and educational. They include— (1) keeping alive the memory of the men whose service or sacrifices during the American Revolution won independence for the American people; (2) bringing their descendants together and promoting fellowship among them; (3) inspiring those descendants and the wider community to deeply respect the principles of the government founded by the country's forefathers; (4) encouraging historical research about the American Revolution; (5) obtaining and preserving records of individual patriots' service, along with documents, relics, and landmarks; (6) marking Revolutionary War sites with suitable memorials; (7) celebrating anniversaries of important events of the war and Revolutionary period; (8) supporting genuine patriotism; (9) maintaining and expanding American freedom's institutions; and (10) carrying out the purposes stated in the Constitution's preamble and Washington's instructions in his farewell address to the American people.

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The purposes of the corporation 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.)

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1998Enacted · Pub. L. 105-225 · 112 Stat. 1424

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