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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. |
A
subcommittee consisting of John C. Greenaway of Arizona, Hamilton Fish of
New York and George N. Davis of Delaware had spent long evenings
discussing a preamble to the constitution. Each man went into seclusion
the night before the St. Louis Caucus to write a draft of the preamble
that would include the principles on which they had agreed. Early the next
morning, they met to compare their drafts. The version that they adopted
later was adopted by the entire committee and by the caucus. It finally
was adopted at the Convention in November of 1919.