The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.
IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.
It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.
The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
The first responsibility of the state is to guarantee the safety of the people.
The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State.