Deck 12: Theories and Concepts of Rights

Question 1

According to the classical liberal theorists

A)State is a social agency
B)State is a political agency
C)State is a neutral body
D)State is an agent of economic upliftment

Answer 1

State is a political agency

Question 2

According to the liberal theory, the individual can find freedom by

A)Obedience to the State
B)Voluntary choice of activities
C)Resistance to the authority
D)Going against the law

Answer 2

Voluntary choice of activities

Question 3

Who said "Rights, in fact, are those conditions of social life without which no man seek, in general to be his best"?

A)Maclver
B)Laski
C)Hegel
D)Kant

Answer 3

Laski

Question 4

Which of the following statement is true?

A)No rights can be given to the man against the social interest
B)Grant of rights is not concerned with social interest
C)Rights can have anti-social character
D)None of the above

Question 5

According to _________"Life is not merely living but living well"

A)St. Augustine
B)Plato
C)Aristotle
D)Socrates

Question 6

In the words of Laski

A)State is not known by the rights of the State
B)State is known to crate rights
C)State is known by moral rights
D)State is known by the rights it maintains

Question 7

The statement "Men are born and always continue free and equal in respect of their rights is associated with

A)U.N Character of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948.
B)French Declaration of Rights of Man, 1789
C)American Declaration of Rights
D)None of the above

Question 8

According to ___________"A right is a claim recognized by society and enforced by the State"

A)Barker
B)Bosanquet
C)Hobbes
D)Laski

Question 9

Which of the following is correct?

A)My right is not your duty and your right is my duty
B)My right is your duty and your right is mu duty
C)Right and duties are not the two sides of the same coin
D)Every right does not have a corresponding obligation

Question 10

Which of the following rights were considered important during middle ages?

A)Right of life
B)Right of education
C)Right of properly
D)And (c)

Question 11

In the words of _________in his book Principles of social political Obligation, "Right are the external conditions necessary for the greatest possible development for the greatest possible development of the capacities of the personality"

A)Laski
B)Barker
C)Bosanquet
D)Lindsay

Question 12

By fundamental rights we mean,

A)Right's guaranteed by the constitution
B)Rights guaranteed by the monarch
C)Rights followed by duties
D)None of the above

Question 13

The political Rights granted by the state enable a citizen to

A)Participate in the administration of the state
B)Lead good religious life
C)Preach politics
D)Meddle in affairs of Government

Question 14

Which of the following is not a Theory of Rights?

A)Legal theory of Rights
B)Historical theory of Rights
C)Divine Rights of King
D)Social welfare theory of rights,

Question 15

_________is the earliest theory of rights

A)Liberal individualist theory of Natural Rights
B)Legal theory
C)Welfare theory
D)None of the above

Question 16

Locke is the supporter of

A)Theory of Natural rights
B)Historical theory of rights
C)Legal theory of rights
D)None of the above

Question 17

Which of the following statements is not associated with natural theory of rights?

A)Rights inherent in man
B)Rights are absolute
C)Rights are pre-civil and according to some political thinkers they are also pre-social
D)Rights are alienable

Question 18

Who among the following supported the theory of Natural Rights ?

A)Locke
B)Hobbes
C)Thomas Paine
D)All the above

Question 19

According to _____________one's natural rights are ones natural powers

A)John Locke
B)Hobbes
C)Mill
D)Thomas paine

Question 20

Who among the following propounded the legal theory of rights?

A)Hobbes
B)Locke
C)Ritche
D)Roussau

Question 21

In the opinion of Laski

A)Holds are created by the State
B)Rights are prior to the state
C)They are not recognized by the State
D)Both (a) and b)

Question 22

Which of the following is an essential conditions for safeguarding rights of the individuals?
I. Decentralisation of authority
II. Existence of Consultative bodies
III. Existence of supreme court
IV. Non-interference by the state in the internal affairs of associations

A)Only I and II
B)Only II and III
C)Only II,III and IV
D)Only I,II and IV

Question 23

A bill of Rights is

A)A declaration of fundamental rights
B)An economic terms
C)A business term
D)A constitutional term

Question 24

Which of the following countries was the first to include a Bill of Rights?

A)America
B)India
C)Sweden
D)None of the above

Question 25

________is not a Civil Right

A)Right of life
B)Right to Liberty
C)Right to Education
D)Right to vote