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Wheat, George Seay

"The Story of The American Legion"



ARTICLE III
_Nature_
While requiring that every member of the organization perform his full
duty as a citizen according to his own conscience and understanding,
the organization shall be absolutely non-partisan, and shall not be
used for the dissemination of partisan principles, or for the
promotion of the candidacy of any person seeking public office or
preferment.

ARTICLE IV
_Administration_
I. The Legislative Body of the organization shall be a national
convention, to be held annually at a place and time to be fixed by
vote of the preceding convention, or in the event that the preceding
convention does not fix a time and place, then such time and place
shall be fixed by the Executive Committee, hereinafter provided for.
2. The annual convention shall be composed of delegates and alternates
from each state, the District of Columbia, and each territory and
territorial possession of the United States, each of which shall be
entitled to four delegates and four alternates, and to one additional
delegate and alternate for each one thousand memberships paid up
thirty days prior to the date of the national convention. The vote of
each state, of the District of Columbia, and of each territory or
territorial possession of the United States shall be equal to the
total number of delegates to which that state, district, territory, or
territorial possession is entitled.


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