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 the 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.