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1. The legal sovereignty resides in:
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A. The constitution of a country

B. The courts, which decide the disputes

C. The Head of the State

D. The body which possesses supreme law making powers

2. Who said that sovereignty resides in determinate human superior?
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A. Bodin

B. Grotius

C. Montesquieu

D. Austin

3. Who one of the following is associated with the statement if sovereignty is not absolute no state will exist?
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A. Hegel

B. John Locke

C. Rousseau

D. Austin

E. Holland

4. The Pluralists are in favour of: _____________?
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A. Grant of all powers to associations only

B. Grant of limited sovereign powers to the state

C. Denial of all sovereign power to the state

D. Grant of absolute sovereign right to the state

5. Which one of the following statements is not correct?
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A. The legal sovereign enjoys only limited authority

B. Legal sovereign has power to issue final commands

C. All rights emanate from the legal sovereign

D. Violation of the command of Legal sovereign is punishable

6. By Titular sovereign we mean:______________?
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A. None of these

B. An absolute sovereign

C. None of both

D. A sovereign in name

7. Who of the followings believed that sovereignty vested in the general would?
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A. Bodin

B. TH.Green

C. Rousseau

D. Austin

8. Political Pluralism calls for:____________?
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A. Government control of association

B. Autonomy of associations

C. Administrative control of associations

D. Parliamentary control of associations

9. Sovereignty does not reside in a determinate human superior who said that?
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A. Sir Henry Maine

B. G.D.H. Cole

C. Bodin

D. Hobbes

10. External Sovereignty means: __________?
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A. Rights of a state to maintain an army of its own

B. Right of the state to act without outside restrictions

C. Right of state to send diplomatic envoys to other states

D. Right of state to apply international law

11. Austin propounded his theory of Sovereignty in the book:
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A. Two Treatises on Government

B. Lectures on Jurisprudence

C. Early History of Institutions

D. Modern State

12. Which one of the following is not true about pluralists attack on concept of sovereignty?
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A. It is against individual liberty

B. It is unethical

C. It is against the ideal of international peace and harmony

D. It is against freedom of association

E. This concept is impossible

13. Legal sovereignty is one which is accepted by:_____________?
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A. By outside people alone

B. All the persons in and outside the state

C. By associations in the state only

D. By international organisations alone

14. Which of the following is not an essential characteristic of sovereignty?
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A. Permanence

B. All comprehensiveness

C. Indivisibility

D. Wealth

E. Exclusiveness

15. The concept of political sovereignty is associated with:___________?
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A. Rousseau

B. John Lacke

C. Austin

D. Plato

16. De jure sovereign refers to:____________?
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A. A person in whom the entire authority is vested by the constitution but does not make use of that power

B. A person who is authorised by Parliament to rule the country

C. The constitutional ruler of state

D. A person who has legal right to govern and command obedience.

17. Which one of the following group of thinkers do not draw any distinction between the governemtn and the state?
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A. All the above

B. Socialists

C. Capitalists

D. Pluralists

18. The Pluralists are in favour of:___________?
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A. Further extension of the powers of state

B. Classless and stateless society

C. Curtailing powers of state

D. Abolition of state

19. The assertion that the state is not the only association but one among many associations in society, is:__________?
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A. An Anarchist viewpoint

B. A Pluralist viewpoint

C. A Fabian viewpoint

D. A Marxist viewpoint

20. Who of the following was the first systemtic thinker about doctrine of sovereignty?
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A. Grotius

B. Laski

C. Hobbes

D. Austin

E. Bodin

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