company, who must help the king administer the land. 78 Facing the uncertainty of an untried political democracy, it was commonplace for officials to have concerns about the people's capacity to be good citizens; complaints about the disease' of freedom which threatened traditional morality were common The concern behind building up people's knowledge was related to the project of the modernizing state. The elite viewed their own 'people' and societies as inadequate and in need of development. Rights and duties were components of a modern state that entailed rational use and productive service to the nation. Not only that, the rights contained in the constitution hinted at the basic infrastructure of capitalist freedoms, rights to property and free movement. Concerns with national development, national and the quality of its subject citizens required that state officials address themselves to "the people problem'. One response to this problem was the publishing of citizens' manuals.