It would implement the spiritual force of A.A. with a legal power, which we believe would tend to weaken its spiritual strength. When we ask for legal rights, enforceable in Courts of law, we by the same act subject ourselves to possib1e legal regulation. We might well become endlessly entangled in litigation which, together with the incidental expense and publicity, could seriously threaten our very existence. Incorporation of A.A. could conceivably become the opening wedge that might engender politics and a struggle for power within our own ranks. Continuously since its beginning, and today, A.A. has been a fellowship and not an organization.
Incorporation necessarily makes it an organization.
A.A. can and will survive so long as it remains a spiritual faith and a way of life open to all men and women who suffer from alcoholism.