Preamble to the Constitution of the
    American Legion Auxiliary


     

    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 association during 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 participate in and contribute to the accomplishment of the aims and purposed of The American Legion;
    to consecrate and sanctify our association by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.

     

     

     

     

     

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