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August 1952

Tradition Four

The fourth of a new series of articles explaining The Twelve Traditions. . . <lb Each group should be autonomous, except in matters affecting other groups or AA as a whole.

AUTONOMY is a ten-dollar word. But in relation to us, it means very simply that every AA group can manage its affairs exactly as it pleases, except when AA as a whole is threatened. Comes now the same question raised in Tradition One. Isn't such liberty foolishly dangerous?

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