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1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery
depends upon A.A. unity.
2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority — a
loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our
leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
3. The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop
drinking.
4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting
other groups or A.A. as a whole.
5. Each group has but one primary purpose — to carry its message
to the alcoholic who still suffers.
6. An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A.A.
name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems
of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary
purpose.
7. Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining
outside contributions.
8. Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever non-professional,
but our service centers may employ special workers.
9. A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create
service boards or committees directly responsible to those they
serve.
10. Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence
the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
11. 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.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions,
ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
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