48 Every right begets a duty. The more rights our government gives us, the more duties are imposed upon each one of us. In an absolute monarchy the people have very few rights and they also have very few duties to perform. In democracies like the United States the people have a right to participate in government, they also have the duty of becoming intelligent and becoming acquainted with the various details of the administration of government. When people have a right to participate in government, they have the duty of attending every election and casting an intelligent ballot. Where people have a right to make law, they must accept the duty of helping enforce law. Where people have freedom of religious belief and worship, they must refrain from interfering in the belief of other people. Where they have freedom of speech and press, they must protect other people in that same right. Where people have the right of trial in a legally constituted court of law, they must refrain from mob rule or from lynch law. The greater the privileges given a people by law, the greater are their duties to see that law is always respected and carefully enforced. 49 The government of the United States is a dual government. There is a State government within each State, which is supreme over the affairs of that State alone. Then there is a Federal government which is supreme and sovereign throughout the entire United States in all those affairs which the Federal Constitution gives to the control of the Federal government. The _police power_ of a State is commonly defined as the power of a State to control all of its domestic internal affairs. The Federal government is not permitted to interfere with the police powers of the States. 50 “No state allows its government to dictate to any one what church he shall attend or compels him to contribute to the support of any church, the establishment of state churches being everywhere forbidden. No person is disqualified from holding office or exercising legal rights because of his religious views, although a very few states make belief in the Deity a requisite for holding certain state offices.”—Hart’s _Actual American Government_, Sec. 13. 51 Constitution of the United States, Amendment I.