Editing National Mall (section)

==Purposes==
The National Park Service states that the purposes of the National Mall are to:

* Provide a monumental, dignified, and symbolic setting for the governmental structures, museums, and national memorials as first delineated by the L'Enfant plan and further outlined in the [[McMillan Plan|McMillan plan]].
* Maintain and provide for the use of the National Mall with its public promenades as a completed work of civic art, a designed historic landscape providing extraordinary vistas to symbols of the nation.
* Maintain National Mall commemorative works (memorials, monuments, statues, sites, gardens) that honor presidential legacies, distinguished public figures, ideas, events, and military and civilian sacrifices and contributions.
* Forever retain the West Potomac Park section of the National Mall as a public park for the recreation and enjoyment of the people.
* Maintain the National Mall in the heart of the nation's capital as a stage for national events and a preeminent national civic space for public gatherings because it is here that the constitutional rights of speech and peaceful assembly find their fullest expression.
* Maintain the National Mall as an area free of commercial advertising while retaining the ability to recognize sponsors."<ref name="foundation statement"/>