From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
COMPEL occurs
3 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
1.
... compel another
to do anything; nobody can ...
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
No
A.A. can
compel another to do
anything;
nobody can be
punished or
expelled.
2.
... compel anyone
to pay anything, believe anything, ...
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
Why did we
dare to say,
contrary to the
experience of
society
and
government everywhere, that we would neither
punish nor
deprive any
A.A. of
membership, that we
must never compel anyone to
pay anything,
believe anything, or
conform to anything?
3.
... compel the
payment of any dues, no ...
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
When told that our
Society has no
president having
authority to
govern it, no
treasurer who can
compel
the
payment of any
dues, no
board of
directors who
can
cast an
erring member into
outer darkness, when
indeed no
A.A. can
give another a
directive and
enforce obedience, our
friends gasp and
exclaim, "This
simply can't be.
Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous
and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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