- One:
Our
Common welfare should come first; personal
recovery depends on AA unity.
- Two:
For
our group purpose, there is but on ultimate
authority...a loving God as He may express
Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are
but trusted servants; they do not govern.
- Three:
The
only requirement for AA membership is a desire to
stop drinking.
- Four:
Each
group should be automonous, except in matters
affecting other groups or AA as a whole.
- Five:
Each
group has but one primary purpose...to carry its
message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
- Six: An AA group
ought never endorse, finance or lend the AA name
to any related facility or outside enterprise,
lest problems of money, property and prestige
divert us from our primary purpose.
- Seven:
Every
AA group ought to be fully self-supporting,
declining outside contributions.
- Eight: Alcoholics
Anonymous should remain forever non-professional,
but our service centers may employ special
workers.
- Nine: AA, as such,
ought never be organized; but we may create
service boards or committees directly responsible
to those they serve.
- Ten: Alcoholics
Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence
the AA name ought never be drawn into public
controversy.
- Eleven:
Our
public relations policy is based on attraction
rather than promotion; we need always maintain
personal anonymity at the level of press, radio
and films.
- Twelve:
Anonymity
is the spiritual foundation of all our
Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles
before personalities.
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