A Federal Charter Is Not What You Think It Is Who Counts as a Daughter? Bloodline, Belonging, and the Limits of Reform in the Daughters of the American Revolution · Part 4 · First published 16 October 2026 Updated 22 October 2026 In three years of argument over DAR membership, one phrase has done a lot of work: congressional charter. In comment threads, I've seen it used to mean that Congress oversees the DAR, that Congress has the final say over its members, or that the char
