 This formed part of a package of legislation that defined citizenship in terms of desired normative behaviour, including ‘honest labour’, a social welfare state based on the priority of the State over individual freedoms to promote the goals of "folkhygien" (public hygiene).Citizenship became a hierarchical attribute depending on adherence to these norms.Throughout these discourses, care was taken to distinguish attitude, which required correction, from acts, which were punishable.