Deck 7: Sovereignty, Political Theory, and Law

Question 1

Who wrote politics is 'who gets, what, when and how'?

A)lasswell
B)kaplan
C)almond
D)powel

Answer 1

lasswell

Question 2

Who among the following was the chief exponent of the legal theory of sovereignty?

A)rousseau
B)locke
C)austin
D)bodin

Answer 2

austin

Question 3

Which among the following is not a feature of sovereignty?

A)absoluteness
B)indivisibility
C)delegation
D)permanence

Answer 3

delegation

Question 4

One of the following is not the feature of sovereignty

A)originality
B)all-comprehensiveness
C)divisibility
D)inalienability

Question 5

Austin was an English

A)jurist
B)sociologist
C)economist
D)scientist

Question 6

Rousseau is the advocate of

A)political sovereignty
B)legal sovereignty
C)popular sovereignty
D)personal sovereignty

Question 7

who observed state is known by the rights it maintains?

A)hegel
B)green
C)barker
D)laski

Question 8

Who among the following is associated with the Rule of law?

A)a.d. lindsay
B)harold laski
C)a.v. dicey
D)ivor jennings

Question 9

Who described the 'rule of law' as nonsense stilts?

A)bentham
B)laski
C)montesquieu
D)rawls

Question 10

Secret ballot is also known as

A)australian ballot
B)austrian ballot
C)canadian ballot
D)greek

Question 11

An essential pre-requisite for constitutionalism?

A)a written constitution
B)parliamentary democracy
C)guarantee of fundamental rights
D)limited government

Question 12

According to Aristotle, the perverted form of government with regard to polity was

A)oligarchy
B)aristocracy
C)democracy
D)monarchy

Question 13

The first systematic classification of government was given by

A)plato
B)aristotle
C)socrates
D)montesquieu

Question 14

Zero hour begins

A)at mid-day
B)at the end of the day
C)at the time when the prime minister suggests
D)at the beginning of the day

Question 15

The term 'sovereignty' is derived from the word 'superanus' of which language

A)french
B)latin
C)greek
D)english

Question 16

Who is called the keystone of the cabinet arch in a parliamentary system?

A)chief justice
B)president
C)prime minister
D)speaker of the lower house

Question 17

All the ministers sail and sink together. This is true of the following form of government

A)unitary
B)presidential
C)federal
D)parliamentary

Question 18

The Romans spread which one of the following idea/ideas in Europe?

A)Universal Law
B)Jus Naturale
C)Brotherhood of man and World Citizenship
D)All the above

Question 19

In ancient Rome, the Law applicable to both the Citizens and foreigners is called

A)Jus Naturale
B)Jus Civile
C)Jus Gentium
D)None of the above

Question 20

Which one of the following statements is true about Roman Law?

A)It consists of only Jus Gentium
B)It consists of only Jus Naturale
C)It consists of only Jus Civile
D)It is a product of Jus Gentium Jus Naturale and Jus Civile

Question 21

Which one of the following is a characteristic of Roman law?

A)Secularisation of Law
B)Universal nature of Law
C)Individual is the centre of legal thought
D)All the above

Question 22

Which one of the following is the author of "Histories" which explained Roman success?

A)Polybius
B)Cicero
C)Socrates
D)None of the above

Question 23

The Consuls of the Roman society represented the elements of

A)Monarchy
B)Aristocracy
C)Democracy
D)None of the above