In regard to your question about qualifications of delegates and Assembly members: the qualifications which he outlined are really applicable to anyone we elect to a Bahá'í office, whatever its nature. But these are only an indication, they do not mean people who don't fulfil them cannot be elected to office. We must aim as high as we can....
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 24 October 1947 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the National Spiritual Assembly of the British Isles, published in "Unfolding Destiny; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. I, Baha’i Elections)
