What the DAR's Charter Actually Says Who Counts as a Daughter? Bloodline, Belonging, and the Limits of Reform in the Daughters of the American Revolution · Part 5 · First published 16 October 2026 Here is the single most important finding in this series: the DAR's congressional charter has never said who may belong to the Society. Not in 1896, not in any of the four rewrites that followed, and not today. That matters because the charter keeps being cited as if it settled the
