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The Scout Promise and Law

The Scout Movement is founded on principles of duty to God, others, and self, requiring adherence to the Scout Promise and Law. The Scout Promise emphasizes commitment to God, helping others, and obeying the Scout Law, while the Scout Law outlines ten guiding principles for behavior and character. Variations of the Promise and Law exist across different National Scout Organizations, reflecting local cultures.

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The Scout Promise and Law

The Scout Movement is founded on principles of duty to God, others, and self, requiring adherence to the Scout Promise and Law. The Scout Promise emphasizes commitment to God, helping others, and obeying the Scout Law, while the Scout Law outlines ten guiding principles for behavior and character. Variations of the Promise and Law exist across different National Scout Organizations, reflecting local cultures.

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The Scout Promise and Law

The Scout Movement is based on the following principles:

Duty to God - a person’s relationship with the spiritual values of life, the fundamental belief in a
force above mankind.

Duty to others – a person’s relationship with, and responsibility within, society in the broadest
sense of the term: his or her family, local community, country and the world at large, as well as
respect for others and for the natural world.

Duty to self – a person’s responsibility to develop his or her own potential, to the best of that
person’s ability.

All members of the Scout Movement are required to adhere to the Scout Promise and Scout Law.
The wording may vary in different National Scout Organizations as appropriate to the local
culture, but they are all based on the Promise and Law originally conceived by the Founder of
the Scout Movement, Baden-Powell.

The Scout Promise

On my honour I promise that I will do my best:


To do my duty to God and the King (or to God and my Country);
To help other people at all times;
To obey the Scout Law.

The Scout Law

1. A Scout’s honour is to be trusted.


2. A Scout is loyal.
3. A Scout’s duty is to be useful and to help others.
4. A Scout is a friend to all and a brother to every other Scout.
5. A Scout is courteous.
6. A Scout is a friend to animals.
7. A Scout obeys orders of his parents, Patrol Leader or Scoutmaster without question.
8. A Scout smiles and whistles under all difficulties.
9. A Scout is thrifty.
10. A Scout is clean in thought, word and deed.

Do you want to know how the Scout Promise and Law are expressed in your country? Contact
your National Scout Organization for more information.

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