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64: ELECTION OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLIES (Radical Changes Not Advised) |
“Regarding your questions concerning the advisability of
changing the basis of the National Assembly’s election and confining
it to the body of delegates or of limiting the term of
office: He feels that as any such changes are of a radical nature
and should therefore apply to the National Spiritual Assemblies
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of other countries, they are inadvisable and premature, both for
this reason and because of their very nature.
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“What is needed is to get the administration in its present
form to run more efficiently and at the same time to build up a
higher sense of the responsibility among the body of the believers.
They should be encouraged to think more, not only about
the qualifications of their elected bodies, but also about such
things as you mention, the law of averages, the age and indisposition
of some of the members, etc.
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“When we look back and see what the administration has
accomplished in twenty-odd years, indeed what it has
done in the last seven years, we see what strides forward
have been made. Far greater tasks lie ahead, but the Guardian
does not feel that the way to meet them is to change the present
system but rather to perfect it by educating the believers and
training them, holding more conferences, publishing more news
for Bahá’ís, getting more people active.”
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