From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... govern."
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
2.
... govern.
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Nine (Long)
3.
... govern.
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
4.
... govern.
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
5.
... govern is
the essence of organization everywhere.
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
6.
... govern it,
no treasurer who can compel ...
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. There must be
an angle somewhere."
7.
... govern or
direct the group.
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
8.
... govern; that
each group was to be ...
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
It was thought that no alcoholic man or woman could be excluded from
our Society; that our leaders might serve but never govern; that each group was to be autonomous and there was to be no professional class of therapy.
9.
... govern us,
but it is equally clear ...
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
It is clear now that we ought never to name boards to govern us, but it is equally clear that we shall always need to authorize workers to serve us.
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