The communal particular interests which fall within civil society and lie outside the universal of the state that is in and for itself (§ 256) have their administration in the corporations (§ 251) of the local communities and of other trades and estates, and in the latter’s authorities, presiding officers, administrators, and the like. In so far as the affairs which they attend to are, on the one hand, the private property and interest of these particular spheres, so that their authority also rests, in this respect, on the confidence of their fellow members of the estate and of the citizenry, while, on the other hand, these circles must be subordinated to the higher interests of the state, the filling of these offices will in general involve a mixture of election by those with an interest in them and of confirmation and appointment from a higher authority.