_Referendum_ means that the qualified voters through the process of balloting may determine whether a measure proposed either through the action of the legislature, or through the initiative, shall become law. _Recall_ is the method by which the qualified voters may remove an undesirable officer from office before the expiration of his term. It is done through a petition requiring a certain percentage of signers from among the qualified voters. If the petition is sufficient an election is called at which time the officer may appear for continuation in office and others may appear as candidates for that office. The one receiving the largest vote is duly chosen. 20 Children who attend the public school are subject to the law as well as are grown people who work in factories or on farms. The teacher must have rules and regulations governing the conduct of pupils in school. These are laws which the children must obey. If a pupil insists on disturbing other pupils or talking out loud—such may be a violation of the rules governing a good school and the pupil may be punished for such violation. 21 Law has been defined as: “The aggregate of those laws and principles of conduct which the governing power in a community recognizes as the rules and principles which it will enforce or sanction, and according to which it will regulate, limit, or protect the conduct of its members.”—Bouvier’s _Law Dictionary_, Vol. II, p. 144. “Law consists of the rules and methods by which society compels or restrains the actions of its members.” In the legal sense—A law is a rule which the courts will enforce. The courts will not enforce all rules, and therefore there are many rules which are not law in the legal sense. “Law _might_ be defined as the aggregate of those rules and principles promulgated by legislative authority or established by local custom, and our laws are the resultant derived from a combination of the divine or moral laws, the laws of nature and human experience, as such resultant has been evolved by human intellect, influenced by the virtue of the ages.”—_Words and Phrases_, p. 33. “Law has her seat in the bosom of God; her voice in the harmony of the world.”—Hooker. “Laws are the very bulwark of liberty. They define every man’s rights, and stand between and defend individual liberties of all.”—J. G. Holland. “Laws exist in vain for those who do not have the courage and the means to defend them.”—Thomas B. Macauley. “Laws, written, if not on stone tablets, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God’s creation, certain as life, certain as death, are they, and thou shalt not disobey them.”—Thomas Carlyle.