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GA99071 
25-June-1999 
 
                Form of Government Recommendation 
                        to Go to Assembly 
 
FORT WORTH -The Assembly Committee on Church Polity will ask the General 
Assembly effectively to end the Book of Order revision that had been 
referred to the Advisory Committee on the Constitution (ACC)by adopting the 
third of three options offered by the ACC.  If the Assembly approves the 
recommendation, the ACC will revise the Foundational section of the draft 
revision of the Form of Government that was sent to all commissioners with 
the Reports of the General Assembly (RGAs) and report back to the 212th 
General Assembly (2000).  That Assembly will have the option of approving 
the revision as a study document. 
     The committee rejected two alternatives that would have continued the 
ACC's work on Form of Government revision. 
     In other business, the committee recommended that the General Assembly 
affirm the right of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), under the Free 
Exercise clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, 
to govern itself and order its life and activity free of government 
intervention.  If the recommendation is approved, the Stated Clerk would be 
authorized and directed to provide financial and technical support to 
congregations and presbyteries in legal proceedings in certain kinds of 
property and jurisdictional matters.   
 
Nancy Rodman 

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