The Universal House of Justice is the supreme institution of
an Administrative Order whose salient features, whose authority and whose
principles of operation are clearly enunciated in the Sacred Writings of the
Bahá'í Faith and their authorized interpretations. This Administrative Order
consists, on the one hand, of a series of elected councils, universal,
secondary and local, in which are vested legislative, executive and judicial
powers over the Bahá'í community and, on the other, of eminent and devoted
believers appointed for the specific purposes of protecting and propagating the
Faith of Bahá'u'lláh under the guidance of the Head of that Faith.
- The Universal House of Justice (‘The Constitution of the Universal House of Justice’)
