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Patriotism and Citizenship 347 Towns, Villages, and Cities The government of the town, or the village, or the city is called local government. It is government close at hand--home government. And out of the home government of each town, village, and city in a state must come, by the votes of the people at the ballot-box, the men whom they choose as their representa- tives in the government of the state and the nation -- for the people rule through representatives of thedr own choosing. Politics In every presidential election, the people, through the rule of the majority, as determined by the Constitution, elect their chief magistrate, the President, who becomes the "first dtizen" o the nation and is entitled "Mr. President." The people o a state by the same rule elect their chief' magistrate and entitle him "HIS Excellency, the Governor"; he is the state's chief or leading dtizen. The people of the city by the same rule edeet their chief magistrate and entitle him "His Honor, the Mayor," the edty's leaxting citizen. The people o the town, in the New England States, elect their chief officers -- three to five men--amd entitle them the "Selectmen"; although in towns of the middle and western states, they are called "Supervisors." So, likewise, the people in town, village, and dry by the same "rule of the majority" elect aldermen, councilmen, state senators, representatives or assemblymen, and congressmen. And the state legislatures in turn elect, according t? the Con- stitution of the United States, the state's United States senators, two in number. Thus, by the rule of the majority, are all officers of town, village, and city,' county and state elected, except such few as are appointed by law to offices by superior officers, heaxis of departments, bureaus, or districts of supervision or ad- ministration. Property The ownership of property, both real and personal, and the protection of that ownership, is made possible in the organiza- tion of society -- termed the government -- and in the power of that government to make and enforce its laws. Real property is the kind of property which pertains to land, the ownership of which is transferred from one person to another, either by a deed recorded in the office of the register of deeds in the county court house, or else transferred by descent, or by will Oaxough, the Digitized by ?,?00g [C