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Twelve
Concepts
1. Final responsibility and ultimate
authority for A.A. services should always reside in the collective
conscience of our whole Fellowship.
2. The General Service
Conference of A.A. has become, for nearly every practical purpose,
the active voice and the effective conscience of our whole Society
in its world affairs.
3. The insure effective leadership,
we should endow each element of AA. -- the Conference, the General
Service Board and its service corporations, staffs, committees,
and executives -- with a traditional "Right of Decision."
4. At all responsible levels, we ought to maintain a
traditional "Right of Participation," allowing a voting
representation in reasonable proportion to the responsibility that
each must discharge.
5. Throughout our structure, a
traditional "Right of Appeal" ought to prevail, so that the
minority opinion will be heard and personal grievances receive
careful consideration.
6. The Conference recognizes that
the chief initiative and active responsibility in most world
service matters should be exercised by the trustee members of the
Conference acting as the General Service Board.
7. The
Charter and Bylaws of the General Service Board are legal
instruments, empowering the trustees to manage and conduct world
service affairs. The Conference Charter is not a legal document;
it relies upon tradition and the A.A. purse for final
effectiveness.
8. The trustees are the principal planners
and administrators of overall policy and finance. They have
custodial oversight of the separately incorporated and constantly
active services, exercising this through their ability to elect
the directors of these entities.
9. Good service
leadership at all levels is indispensable for our future
functioning and safety. Primary world service leadership, once
exercised by the founders, must necessarily be assumed by the
trustees.
10. Every service responsibility should be
matched by and equal service authority, with the scope of such
authority well defined.
11. The trustees should always
have the best possible committees, corporate service directors,
executives, staffs, and consultants. Composition, qualifications,
induction procedures, and rights and duties will always be matters
of serious concern.
12. The Conference shall observe the
spirit of A.A. tradition, taking care that it never becomes the
seat of perilous wealth or power; that sufficient operating funds
and reserve be its prudent financial principle; that it place none
of its members in a position of unqualified authority over others;
that it reach all important decisions by discussion, vote, and,
whenever possible, by substantial unanimity; that its actions
never be personally punitive nor an incitement to public
controversy; that it never perform acts of government, and that,
like the Society it serves, it will always remain democratic in
thought and action.
A.A.
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Steps
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Traditions
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Promises
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Concepts
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