Twelve Concepts of Alcoholic Anonymous

Concept Number	Description
I	Final responsibility and ultimate authority of A.A. world services should always reside in the collective conscience of our whole Fellowship.
II	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 world affairs.
II	To insure effective leadership, we should endow each element of A.A. -- the Conference, the General Service Board and its service corporations, staffs, committees, and executives -- with a traditional "Right of Decision."
IV	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.
V	Throughout our structure, a traditional "Right of Appeal" ought to prevail, so that minority opinion will be heard and personal grievances receive careful consideration.
VI	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.
VII	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.'s purse for final effectiveness.
VIII	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 all the directors of these entities.
XIV	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.
X	Every service responsibility should be matched by an equal service authority, with the scope of such authority well defined.
XI	The trustees should always have the best possible committees, corporate service directors, executives, staffs, and consultants. Composition, qualification, induction procedures, and the rights and duties will always be matters of serious concern.
XII	The Conference shall observe the spirit of AA. 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

One List of Principles of Alcoholic Anonymous

Principle	Step No.	Step Content
Honesty	Step 1.	We admitted that we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.
Hope	Step 2.	Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Faith	Step 3.	Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.
Courage	Step 4.	Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Integrity	Step 5.	Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Willingness	Step 6.	Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Humility	Step 7.	Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Brotherly Love	Step 8.	Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Justice	Step 9.	Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Perserverance	Step 10.	Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Spirituality	Step 11.	Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry that out.
Service	Step 12.	Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, especially alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.