From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
GOVERN occurs
9 times
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1.
... govern."
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
Our
leaders are but
trusted servants; they do
not
govern."
2.
... govern.
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Nine (Long)
They
derive no
real authority from their
titles; they do not
govern.
3.
... govern.
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Our
leaders are but
trusted servants; they do
not
govern.
4.
... govern.
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
They
derive no
real authority from their
titles; they do not
govern.
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.
7.
... govern or
direct the group.
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
In no
sense whatever can
its
members govern or
direct the
group.
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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