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American Legion Boys State is easily classified as a leadership action program where qualified male high school juniors take part in a practical government course designed to develop in the young citizens a working knowledge of the structure of government and to impress upon them the fact that government is just what they make it.
Objectives
and Goals
A
program of this scope encompasses many important objectives. Those which
we, The American Legion, feel are most important and for which we strive
the hardest are:
To
develop civic leadership and pride in American citizenship.
It
is our earnest hope that each young man attending Boys State will return
to his community a better citizen and that we will have aroused in him a
desire to demonstrate this fact by his willingness to make civic
contributions that will help to make his community a better place in
which to live.
To
arouse a keen interest in the detailed study of our government.
Here
we desire to create more than just a passive interest in the actual
study of government; we strive to create an interest that will be born
of the desire for knowledge.
To
develop an understanding of American traditions and belief in the United
States of America.
Here
we desire to impress upon the young men the traditions which have made
this country what it is today.
To
arouse in the young citizens a determination to maintain our form of
government.
This
we attempt to accomplish in many ways but primarily by bringing them
into the full realization of the privilege it is to be an American!
The
final two objectives are taken from the Preamble to the Constitution of
The American Legion.
Overview