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	<li>Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.</li>
	<li>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.</li>
	<li>The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.</li>
	<li>Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.</li>
	<li>Each group has but one primary purpose -- to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.</li>
	<li>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.</li>
	<li>Every A. A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.</li>
	<li>Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.</li>
	<li>A.A. as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.</li>
	<li>Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.</li>
	<li>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.</li>
	<li>Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.</li>
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