origin of state MCQs – Page 11

Practise focused origin of state questions with marked answers for exam preparation and subject revision.

origin of state Mcqs
201. Locke concedes to the people:
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A. Change the government if it fails to perform its part of contract

B. Change the government if it imposes heavy taxation

C. The right to change the government any time they like

D. No right to change the government

202. Who said that family is the basis of the state?
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A. Leacock

B. Gilchrist

C. Gettell

D. Fenwick

203. According to Locke the government was created for the purpose of:____________?
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A. Promotion of welfare of the community

B. Protection of natural rights

C. Maintenance of law and order

D. Protection of country from outside aggression

204. Feudalism was a dominant feature of:__________?
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A. The Roman Empire

B. All the above

C. The city-states

D. The Holy Roman Empire
205. In Hobbes contract sovereign was: ___________?
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A. Party to the contract

B. Below the people

C. Above the contract

D. To be elected in a democratic manner

206. Which one of the following has been wrongly listed as a shortcoming of the Divine Origin Theory?
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A. It is dangerous because it leaves sufficient scope for the ruler to assume despotic powers

B. It leads to political stagnation and hampers progress

C. It is based on superstition and does not appeal to reason

D. It is not supported by history
207. The tribal system of state organisation was: __________?
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A. Well developed

B. Rudimentary

C. Based on sound footings

D. Properly organised

208. He breathes the bitterest hatred not only of individualism, but even of those elementary rights, which none but the most backward nations now deny to the individual, yet this preposterous system, consciously or unconsciously represents an exremeform of individualism The quotation given above applies to ___________?
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A. Hobbes

B. Locke

C. Machiavelli

D. Marx

209. The four factors which helped in the evolution of the state were: ___________?
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A. Population, Territory, Government

B. Kinship, Religion, Force and Political Consciousness

C. Population, Religion, Government and Force

D. Religion, Force, Territory and Government

210. According to exponents of force theory:
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A. Church was inferior to state

B. There was no relation between the church and the states

C. None of these

D. Church was superior to state
211. The Principle of public good was borrowed by Rousseau from:
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A. T.H. Green

B. Locke

C. J.S. Mill

D. Bentham

212. Henry Maine has supported about origin of state:
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A. Theory of divine origin

B. Matriarchal theory

C. Parriarchal theory

D. Evolutionary theory

213. The Matriarchal theory of the origin of state is associated with: __________?
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A. Adam Smith

B. Sir Henry Maine

C. Jenks

D. Herbert

214. In the contract envisaged by Hobbes:
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A. Sovergign was a party to the contract

B. Sovereign accpeted only limited obligations

C. Sovereign came into being as a result of the Contract

D. Sovereign refused to become a party to the contract

215. One of the major factor which contributed to the decline of the Holy Roman Empire was ___________?
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A. Challenge of bourgeoisie class

B. Foreign aggression

C. Disappearance of the Pope

D. None of the above

216. According to the Force Theory:
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A. Force was the sole factor responsible for the origin of the state

B. Will, not force, is the best is of state

C. Force was one of the important factors for the origin of the state

D. Spiritual force was the most important factor in the growth of the state

217. Who wrote the following terms of the social contract? I authorise and give up my right of governing myself to this man, or to this assembly of men, on this condition that thou give up thy right to him, and authorise all his actions in the like manner.
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A. Hobbes

B. Locke

C. Rousseau

D. Spinoza

218. The state is a product of society at a certain stage of development when it has split into irreconcilable antagonisms, which it is powerless to dispel. To which of the following theories of the origin of the state does this statement belong?
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A. Marxists

B. Liberal

C. Historical-Evolutionary

D. Social Contract

219. Rousseaus theory of social contract very much influenced the organizers of: ____________?
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A. Russian Revolution

B. Glorious Revolution

C. French Revolution

D. Industrial Revolution

E. Glorious Revolution

220. Lockes sovereign: ____________?
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A. Was above all laws

B. None of these

C. Was bound by the laws given by him

D. Was main source of original laws