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This set of Socio Political Thought Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Socio Political Thought Set 7

Q1 | Who wrote politics is ‘who gets, what, when and how’?
  • lasswell
  • kaplan
  • almond
  • powel
Q2 | Who among the following was the chief exponent of the legal theory of sovereignty?
  • rousseau
  • locke
  • austin
  • bodin
Q3 | Which among the following is not a feature of sovereignty?
  • absoluteness
  • indivisibility
  • delegation
  • permanence
Q4 | One of the following is not the feature of sovereignty
  • originality
  • all-comprehensiveness
  • divisibility
  • inalienability
Q5 | Austin was an English
  • jurist
  • sociologist
  • economist
  • scientist
Q6 | Who wrote the work ‘anarchy, state and utopia’?
  • taylor
  • merriam
  • robert nozik
  • catlin
Q7 | Rousseau is the advocate of
  • political sovereignty
  • legal sovereignty
  • popular sovereignty
  • personal sovereignty
Q8 | who observed state is known by the rights it maintains?
  • hegel
  • green
  • barker
  • laski
Q9 | Who among the following is associated with the Rule of law?
  • a.d. lindsay
  • harold laski
  • a.v. dicey
  • ivor jennings
Q10 | Who described the ‘rule of law’ as nonsense stilts?
  • bentham
  • laski
  • montesquieu
  • rawls
Q11 | Secret ballot is also known as
  • australian ballot
  • austrian ballot
  • canadian ballot
  • greek
Q12 | An essential pre-requisite for constitutionalism?
  • a written constitution
  • parliamentary democracy
  • guarantee of fundamental rights
  • limited government
Q13 | The theory of separation of powers was initiated by
  • montesquieu
  • locke
  • madison
  • dicey
Q14 | According to Aristotle, the perverted form of government with regard to polity was
  • oligarchy
  • aristocracy
  • democracy
  • monarchy
Q15 | The first systematic classification of government was given by
  • plato
  • aristotle
  • socrates
  • montesquieu
Q16 | Zero hour begins
  • at mid-day
  • at the end of the day
  • at the time when the prime minister suggests
  • at the beginning of the day
Q17 | The term ‘sovereignty’ is derived from the word ‘superanus’ of which language
  • french
  • latin
  • greek
  • english
Q18 | Who is called the keystone of the cabinet arch in a parliamentary system?
  • chief justice
  • president
  • prime minister
  • speaker of the lower house
Q19 | All the ministers sail and sink together. This is true of the following form of government
  • unitary
  • presidential
  • federal
  • parliamentary
Q20 | The Romans spread which one of the following idea/ideas in Europe?
  • Universal Law
  • Jus Naturale
  • Brotherhood of man and World Citizenship
  • All the above
Q21 | In ancient Rome, the Law applicable to both the Citizens andforeigners is called
  • Jus Naturale
  • Jus Civile
  • Jus Gentium
  • None of the above
Q22 | Which one of the following statements is true about Roman Law?
  • It consists of only Jus Gentium
  • It consists of only Jus Naturale
  • It consists of only Jus Civile
  • It is a product of Jus Gentium, Jus Naturale and Jus Civile
Q23 | Which one of the following is a characteristic of Roman law?
  • Secularisation of Law
  • Universal nature of Law
  • Individual is the centre of legal thought
  • All the above
Q24 | Which one of the following is the author of “Histories” whichexplained Roman success?
  • Polybius
  • Cicero
  • Socrates
  • None of the above
Q25 | The Consuls of the Roman society represented the elements of
  • Monarchy
  • Aristocracy
  • Democracy
  • None of the above