Preamble to the American Legion Constitution
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
