Preamble to the Constitution of The American Legion
For God and Country
We associate ourselves together
for the following purposes:
to uphold and defend the
Constitution of the United States of America; to maintain law
and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred percent
Americanism; to preserve the memories and incidents of our
associations in the great wars; to inculcate a sense of
individual obligation to the community, state and nation; to
combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make
right the master of might; to promote peace and goodwill on
earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of
justice, freedom and democracy; to consecrate and sanctify our
comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.
