If a state is known by the rights it maintains, a citizen is judged by the duties he fulfills. He has duties towards other citizens, associations and the state. We shall here enumerate some of his duties and obligations towards the state.
Law Obedient. The most important duty of the citizen is to obey the law of the state. It is the hall-mark of good citizenship. A good citizen obeys a law even if he believes it to be against the common good or oppressive or bad.
He must not disobey it, because such an act would destroy the basis of good government, peace and progress. Disobedience of laws is like a contagious disease; it spreads from citizen and from law to law.