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1. In most of the modern states the individuals enjoy ____________?
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A. None of the above

B. No liberty

C. Absolute liberty

D. Liberty with reasonable restrictions

2. Liberty to make criticism of the policies of the government is: __________?
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A. Economic right

B. Political right

C. Civil right

D. Natural right

E. Moral right

3. In order to determine the proper role of government in a society it is useful to distinguish between the part of a persons life which concerns only himself and that which concerns others according to: _________?
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A. Bentham

B. Godwin

C. J.S. Mill

D. Locke

4. Which of the following does not fall within the purview of the political liberty?
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A. Right to move the court for the endorcement of rights

B. Right to vote

C. Right to contest elections

D. Right to criticise the government

5. Who said that from liberty is meant, Every man is free to do what he wills, provided he infringes not the freedom of other man?
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A. Laski

B. G.D.H. Cole

C. Herbert Spencer

D. Liber

E. J.S.Mill

6. The view that law and liberty are opposed to each other has been expressed by ___________?
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A. Marxists

B. Socialists

C. Idealists

D. Anarchist

7. Who of the following said Political liberty in the absence of economic liberty is a myth?
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A. Stalin

B. Lenin

C. G.D.H. Cole

D. Dicey

8. Who said that Liberty itself is not one but manifold?
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A. Cole

B. Laski

C. Green

D. MacIver

9. Liberty therefore, is never real unless the Government can be called to account when it invades rights. (Laski) <br/> Which one of the following is the just justification to the above statement?<br />
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A. In identifying a man as a political unit in a way which distinguishes him from other citizens

B. It the realisation of that the government can be brought to book in a court of law

C. In a decentralized society wherein the basic needs of men can find satisfaction

D. In the understanding that liberty and restraints are complementary

10. The concept of natural liberty is associated with: ________?
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A. Social Contract Theory

B. Divine Origin Theory

C. Force Theory

D. Evolutionary Theory

11. Who of the following has laid stress on positive aspect of liberty?
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A. Proudhan

B. J.S. Mill

C. Bakunin

D. H.J. Laski

12. Which one of the following safeguards of liberty has been wrongly listed?
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A. Free Press

B. Funcamental Rights

C. Compulsory Military Training

D. Independent and impartial judiciary

13. Who said that liberty is primarily absence of restraints?
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A. G.D.H.Cole

B. Benjamin

C. Seeley

D. Laski

14. Freedom or liberty is the positive power of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying and that too something we do or enjoy in common with others. This definition was given by:
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A. Bentham

B. Thomas Hobbes

C. Hegel

D. T.H Green

E. Karl Marx

15. Who said that liberty consists in following the moral law?
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A. Marx

B. Spinoza

C. Barker

D. Cole

16. Who has defined liberty by saying freedom is not the absence of restraints but rather the substitution of rational ones for the irrational?
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A. G.D.H. Cole

B. Gettell

C. Mackechnie

D. Laski

E. Seeley

17. Liberty in negative sense means: __________?
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A. Imposition of maximum restraints

B. Liberty granted by the laws of the land

C. Right to do what is acceptable to majority of the people in a society

D. Right to do whatever one likes

18. Type of liberty, which a man enjoys as a member of civil society, is called: _________?
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A. Natural liberty

B. Political liberty

C. Civil liberty

D. Economic liberty

19. Liberty means: __________?
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A. Power to do anything

B. Freedom to do whatever one likes

C. Presence of opportunity to achieve the fullest development of personality

D. Absence of restraints

20. Liberty means providing those conditions which are essential for development of human personality is the view of:
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A. Anarchists

B. Idealists

C. Individualists

D. Modern thinkers

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