Deck 13: Concepts of Liberty and Justice

Question 1

Which one of the following is not a political right?

A)Right to public Office
B)Right to Petition
C)Right to Education
D)Right to contest Election

Answer 1

Right to Education

Question 2

Which of the following is a Civil Right?

A)Right to freedom of speech and expression
B)Right to vote
C)Right to become a member of parliament
D)Right to Association

Answer 2

Right to freedom of speech and expression

Question 3

The right to elect Member of parliament is a

A)Political right
B)Social right
C)Religious right
D)Moral right

Answer 3

Political right

Question 4

__________has granted the Fundamental rights to the citizens of India

A)Parliament
B)Constitution of India
C)A government of Order
D)A Special Law

Question 5

________was the first political thinker to advocate communism of property.

A)Marx
B)Lenin
C)Plato
D)Engels

Question 6

Who among the following deemed liberty as living life to the fullest.

A)Macpherson
B)Hegel
C)Kant
D)Green

Question 7

Who among the following philosophers considers liberty as Obedience to Law?

A)Hegel
B)Kant
C)Spencer
D)Green

Question 8

The word liberty is derived from the word liber of

A)Greek language
B)French language
C)German language
D)Latin language

Question 9

The word liber means

A)Licence
B)Free
C)Restricted
D)Obstruction

Question 10

What is the literal meaning of liberty?

A)Absence of restraint
B)Restraint
C)Freedom with certain limitations
D)Positive freedom

Question 11

Natural liberty is generally identified with

A)Restricted freedom
B)Limited freedom
C)Unlimited and unrestricted freedom
D)None of the above

Question 12

Natural liberty implies

A)Liberty enjoyed by man in the imaginary state of nature when civil society did not exist
B)The liberty which man enjoys in the society
C)The liberty which man enjoys in the state
D)Absence of any type of liberty

Question 13

_________was the chief exponent of the concept of natural liberty

A)Rousseau
B)Hobbes
C)Locke
D)Austin

Question 14

According to ___"Civil liberty consists of right and privileges which the State creates and protects for its subjects.

A)Gettell
B)Gilchrist
C)Laski
D)Montesquieu

Question 15

Which among the following is not civil liberty?

A)Right to equality before law.
B)Right to freedom of speech ad expression
C)Right to vote
D)Freedom of the person

Question 16

Who among the following said "Liberty means to grow to one's natural height to develop one's abilities?

A)Burns
B)Gettell
C)Locke
D)Rousseau

Question 17

Who among the following said 'Political liberty is the power to be active in the affairs of the state'?

A)Hobbes
B)Laski
C)Gilchrist
D)Gettell

Question 18

Laski holds that two conditions are essential to make political liberty real

A)Equality and property
B)Equal access to education, honest and free press
C)Civil liberty and Economic liberty
D)Religious and Civil liberty

Question 19

The positive view of liberty was first put forward by

A)Ideals thinkers like Kant, Hegel, Fichte
B)Idealist thinkers like Laski, Kant etc.
C)Classical thinkers like Adam Smith
D)Utilitarian thinkers like Bentham, Mill etc.

Question 20

C.B Macpherson has discussed his view on liberty in his book

A)Grammar of politics
B)Democratic theory
C)On liberty
D)Concepts of liberty

Question 21

Who among the following regards positive liberty as developmental liberty?

A)Laski
B)Macpherson
C)Weber
D)Maclver

Question 22

'Freedom is a product of free society' means

A)It is free society that man has the opportunity to develops his real self.
B)True freedom is conceivable with out a free society
C)Freedom from exploitation
D)None of the above

Question 23

Which of the following philosophers said, "nature hath made men equal"?

A)Plato
B)Hobbes
C)Aristotle
D)Machiavelli

Question 24

Who among the following stated. "We want to abolish classes and in this sense we are for equality"

A)Marx
B)Lenin
C)Engels
D)Laski

Question 25

The term justice is derived from latin word

A)Justicia
B)Justa
C)Justitia
D)None of the above