The directors of AMVETS, Department of California Service Foundation do not have the authority to unilaterally amend the organization’s Constitution to remove the right of the members of AMVETS to elect them. An appellate court in California has affirmed a trial court decision ruling that the purported change was void and ineffective. The AMVETS National Constitution permits each state Department to create a subordinate foundation and the California Department did so in 1970. Prior to May 2008, the Constitution of the Foundation provided that the six members of its Board of Trustees would be elected by the AMVET members at the AMVET state convention. It also provided that the organization’s...