s, Teaching, and Program
Committees; the Legal Committee; the Archives and History Committee; the
Census Committee; the Baha'i Exhibits Committee; the Baha'i News
Committee; the Baha'i News Service Committee; the Braille Transcriptions
Committee; the Contacts Committee; the Service Committee; the Editorial
Committee; the Index Committee; the Library Committee; the Radio
Committee; the Accountant Committee; the Annual Souvenir Committee; the
Baha'i World Editorial Committee; the Study Outline Committee; the
International Auxiliary Language Committee; the Institute of Baha'i
Education Committee; the World Order Magazine Committee; the Baha'i Public
Relations Committee; the Baha'i Schools Committee; the Summer Schools
Committee; the International School Committee; the Pamphlet Literature
Committee; the Baha'i Cemetery Committee; the Haziratu'l-Quds Committee;
the Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar Committee; the Assembly Development Committee;
the National History Committee; the Miscellaneous Materials Committee; the
Free Literature Committee; the Translation Committee; the Cataloguing
Tablets Committee; the Editing Tablets Committee; the Properties
Committee; the Adjustments Committee; the Publicity Committee; the East
and West Committee; the Welfare Committee; the Transcription of Tablets
Committee; the Traveling Teachers Committee; the Baha'i Education
Committee; the Holy Sites Committee; the Children's Savings Bank
Committee.

The establishment of local and national Assemblies and the subsequent
formation of local and national committees, acting as necessary adjuncts
to the elected representatives of Baha'i communities in both the East and
the West, however remarkable in themselves, were but a prelude to a series
of undertakings on the part of the newly formed National Assemblies, which
have contributed in no small measure to the unification of the Baha'i
world community and the consolidation of its Administrative Order. The
initial step taken in that direction was the drafting and adoption of a
Baha'i National constitution, first framed and promulgated by the elected
representatives of the American Baha'i Community in 1927, the text of
which has since, with slight variations suited to national requirements,
been translated into Arabic, German and Persian, and constitutes, at the
present time, the charter of the National Spiritual Assemblies of the
Baha'is of the United States and Canada, of the British Isles, of Germany,
of Persia