origin of state MCQs – Page 9

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origin of state Mcqs
161. Who of the following said that in the state of nature man was nasty and brutish?
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A. Bodin

B. Hegel

C. Green

D. Hobbes
162. Locke propounded his theory of Social Contract in the book entitled:
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A. Representative Government

B. Social Contract

C. Two Treatises on Civil Government

D. Lectures on Jurisprudence

163. Locke says that people left the state of nature:
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A. Because they were fed up with the perpetual warfare

B. Because of the inconvenience caused by different interpretations of laws of nature of different members

C. Because of divine intervention

D. Because they were fed up with the autocratic rule of the King

164. In the city state the king was: _________?
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A. Deputy of God on earth

B. Philosopher

C. Despotic

D. Hereditary

165. Roussean borrowed the concept of absolute sovereignty from:
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A. Locke

B. Austin

C. Bodin

D. Hobbes
166. Who said So long as the General will is Sovereign, it does not matter what form of government it may be __________?
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A. Rousseau

B. T.H. Green

C. Hegel

D. Hobbes

167. Which one of the following is not true of church of the fourth century?
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A. There was a conflict between the pope and the state

B. Church was a pure institution

C. Pope began to claim himself as superior over king

D. The pope and the state lived in perfect harmony
168. What is the name of the book written by Miss Follett?
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A. The Two States

B. State and Sovereignty

C. Lectures on Pluralism

D. The New State
169. Which one of the following statements sums up Hobbess views about the nature of man:
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A. Man is a social animal

B. Man is essentially peace loving

C. Man is co-operative sympathetic towards members of society

D. Man is selfish and quarrelsome
170. In modern times the Force theory of the origin of state found a strong advocate in __________?
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A. Lenin

B. Winston Churchill

C. Mahatma Gandhi

D. Hitler
171. A good state is usually supposed to perform one of the following functions, which one:
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A. Welfare functions

B. Military functions

C. Supervisory functions

D. Police functions

172. Tribal State means: ____________?
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A. The state, which are ruled by the Kings of the same tribe

B. The states which have majority of tribal population

C. A political organization which existed before the creation of the state

D. The states possessing population from the same tribe

173. Who has said that social contact theory is fatal to political impostures?
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A. Sedgwick

B. Sir Henry Maine

C. Sir Fredrick Pollock

D. Bluntschli

174. The early Oriental Empires were mostly located: ____________?
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A. On the banks of rivers

B. In Europe

C. One the sea coasts

D. In the fertile valleys
175. Which one of the following merits of Divine Origin Theory has been wrongly enumerated:
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A. It helped the ruler to establish peace and order by claiming divine descent

B. It disciplined the primitives man

C. It taught the primitive man the value of obedience

D. It made the primitive man religious and superstitious
176. The Social Contract theory holds ______________?
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A. Man is a social animal and cannot live outside the society

B. State is the result of slow process of evolution

C. State was created as a result of contract concluded by the people living in the pre-civil society

D. State was created through a contract concluded in the sixteenth century

177. The evolutionary theory regarding the origin of states on:
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A. Religious principles

B. Evolutionary principle

C. Scientific-cum-religious principles

D. Revolutionary principle

178. Rousseau was an advocate of: __________?
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A. Individual Sovereignty

B. Legal Sovereignty

C. Popular Sovereignty

D. Political Sovereignty

179. Who said that theory of social contract about the origin of the state was most worthless?
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A. Sorel

B. Sir Henry Maine

C. T.H. Green

D. Bentham

180. Which one of the following condition was not associated with the state of nature as expounded by Locke?
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A. The prevalence of natural law

B. The state of nature was a state of peace, mutual assistance and cooperation

C. There were natural rights of life, liberty and property

D. There was continuous fear and danger of violent death