CSS Political Science Questions & Answers - Part-2 - Set 9

1)   Which one of the following statements is correct?

a. Sovereignty implies freedom to conduct intenal affairs of a state
b. Sovereignty means freedom to conduct the foreign affairs
c. Sovereignth means freedom to conduct both Internal and external affairs
d. Sovereignty is the desire of people to have independence
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sovereignth means freedom to conduct both Internal and external affairs

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


2)   Sovereignty is an attribute of:

a. Despotic state only
b. Democratic states only
c. All states
d. Government
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: All states

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


3)   The concept of political sovereignty is associated with:

a. Plato
b. John Lacke
c. Rousseau
d. Austin
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: John Lacke

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


4)   The concept of popular sovereignty is associated with:

a. Austin
b. Locke
c. Rousseau
d. Bodin
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Rousseau

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


5)   Who of the followings believed that sovereignty vested in the general would?

a. Rousseau
b. TH.Green
c. Austin
d. Bodin
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Rousseau

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


6)   The principle of popular sovereignty holds that sovereignty lies with:

a. People
b. Members of Parliament
c. Constitution
d. Pope
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: People

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


7)   Titular Sovereign means:

a. A person who enjoys absolute powers and is not accountable to any one
b. A person who is vested with all sovereign powers by the constitution but whose powers does someone else enjoy
c. A person who enjoys all the powers vested in him by the constitution
d. A sovereign elected by the Parliament
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: A person who is vested with all sovereign powers by the constitution but whose powers does someone else enjoy

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


8)   The legal sovereignty resides in:

a. The courts, which decide the disputes
b. The constitution of a country
c. The body which possesses supreme law making powers
d. The Head of the State
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The body which possesses supreme law making powers

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


9)   Which one of the following features of legal sovereignty has been wrongly listed?

a. It is definite
b. It enjoys only limited authority
c. It possesses the power to issue final commands
d. All rights emanate from it
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: It enjoys only limited authority

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


10)   The Legal Sovereign has to bow before the:

a. Real sovereign
b. Political sovereign
c. Popular sovereignty
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Political sovereign

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


11)   The de facto and de jure sovereignty:

a. Are opposed to each other
b. Can exist side by side
c. Have no relation with each other
d. Are acquired with the help of force
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Can exist side by side

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


12)   The concept of external sovereignty was developed by:

a. John Austin
b. Grotius
c. Oppenheim
d. Bentham
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Grotius

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


13)   External Sovereignty means:

a. Right of the state to act without outside restrictions
b. Right of state to apply international law
c. Right of state to send diplomatic envoys to other states
d. Rights of a state to maintain an army of its own
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Right of the state to act without outside restrictions

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


14)   Who said that sovereignty resides in determinate human superior?

a. Bodin
b. Grotius
c. Austin
d. Montesquieu
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Austin

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


15)   Who said that sovereignty cannot reside in 'determinate human superior'?

a. Austin
b. Bodin
c. G.D.H.Cole
d. Henry Maine
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Henry Maine

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


16)   Who of the followings is known as the high priest of sovereignty?

a. Austin
b. Bodin
c. Rousseau
d. Grotius
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Rousseau

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


17)   Who said that the theory of sovereignty is not valid for political philosophy?

a. T.H. Green
b. Hobhouse
c. Laski
d. Grotius
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Laski

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


18)   Which of the followings was the bitterest critic of Austin's theory of sovereignty?

a. Bodin
b. Laski
c. Sir Henry Maine
d. Hobbes
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sir Henry Maine

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


19)   The monistic theory of sovereignty holds that:

a. The sovereignty resides in the state alone
b. Sovereignty resides in the King only
c. Sovereignty is shared by the King and the Parliament
d. Sovereignty is shared by the state and other associations
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The sovereignty resides in the state alone

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


20)   Austin propounded his theory of Sovereignty in the book:

a. Two Treatises on Government
b. Lectures on Jurisprudence
c. Early History of Institutions
d. Modern State
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Lectures on Jurisprudence

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


21)   Austin propounded a theory of:

a. Legal Sovereignty
b. Political Sovereignty
c. Titular Sovereignty
d. Popular Sovereignty
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Legal Sovereignty

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


22)   Which one of the following statements in wrong?

a. Sovereignty rests exclusively with the state
b. Sovereignty is permanent
c. Sovereignty is shared by the state with government
d. State can give a part of its sovereignty to society
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: State can give a part of its sovereignty to society

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


23)   Which one of the following statements is not correct?

a. Legal sovereign has power to issue final commands
b. Violation of the command of Legal sovereign is punishable
c. All rights emanate from the legal sovereign
d. The legal sovereign enjoys only limited authority
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The legal sovereign enjoys only limited authority

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


24)   In Britain the legal sovereignty resides in:

a. The House of Lords
b. The Queen-in-Parliament
c. The Queen
d. The Courts
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The Queen-in-Parliament

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


25)   The first western writer to offer a systematic exposition of the doctrine of sovereignty was:

a. John Austin
b. Bodin
c. Grotius
d. Hobbes
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Bodin

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


26)   Which one of the following statements is not correct?

a. Austin's theory of sovereignty is in keeping with the notions of popular sovereignty
b. Austin's theory of sovereignty is not in keeping with the notions of popular sovereignty
c. Austin exaggerates the element of force when he describes law as a command of the sovereign
d. Austin fails to draw a distinction between, legal and political sovereignty
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Austin's theory of sovereignty is in keeping with the notions of popular sovereignty

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


27)   The Pluralistic theory of sovereignty was first propounded by:

a. Laski
b. MacIver
c. Bodin
d. Von Gierke
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Von Gierke

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


28)   The Pluralists are in favour of:

a. Denial of all sovereign power to the state
b. Grant of absolute sovereign right to the state
c. Grant of limited sovereign powers to the state
d. Grant of all powers to associations only
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Grant of limited sovereign powers to the state

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


29)   The Pluralists believe that:

a. Sovereignty is exclusively vested in the state
b. Sovereignty is shared by the various social, religious, economic and political groups
c. Sovereignty is the privilege of social and economic groups only
d. Sovereignty rests with the United Nations
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sovereignty is shared by the various social, religious, economic and political groups

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


30)   Which one of the following statements is correct?

a. The legal sovereign is superior to political sovereign
b. The legal sovereign is inferior to political sovereign
c. The legal sovereign is equal to political sovereign
d. No relationship exists between the political and legal sovereign
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The legal sovereign is inferior to political sovereign

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


31)   The Pluralists believe in:

a. Legal sovereignty
b. Political sovereignty
c. Nominal Sovereign
d. Absolute sovereignty
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Political sovereignty

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


32)   One of the followings is a basic feature of Pluralist concept of sovereignty:

a. Absoluteness
b. Inalienability
c. Divisibility
d. Exclusiveness
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Divisibility

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


33)   Pluralistic view of sovereignty was:

a. A reaction against denial of sovereignty to state
b. A reaction against to much of importance attached to economic and social groups
c. Reaction against dogmatic legalism of Austinian theory of sovereignty
d. A plea for an independent judiciary
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Reaction against dogmatic legalism of Austinian theory of sovereignty

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


34)   Pluralists believe that:

a. The state is a unique organization
b. The state is as important as the other social, economic and religious groups
c. The other social, economic and religious groups are more important than the state
d. State is controlled by other associations
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The state is as important as the other social, economic and religious groups

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


35)   The main function of the state according to the Pluralists is:

a. To promote general welfare of its citizens
b. To regulate the activities of various associations
c. To regulate production distribution of essential goods
d. To provide social securities like unemployment allowance and old pension
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: To regulate the activities of various associations

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


36)   The Pluralists are in favour of:

a. Abolition of state
b. Classless and stateless society
c. Curtailing powers of state
d. Further extension of the powers of state
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Curtailing powers of state

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


37)   Who was the doyen of the Pluralists from amongst the following?

a. Bentham
b. J.S. Mill
c. Leacock
d. Laski
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Laski

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


38)   According to the Pluralists one of the important limitations on sovereignty is:

a. Written Constitution
b. Independent Judiciary
c. Political Parties
d. International Law
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: International Law

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


39)   "If sovereignty is not absolute, no state exists" Who said this?

a. John Austin
b. Jean Bodin
c. Hobbes
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: John Austin

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


40)   There are several forms of sovereignty. The sovereignty of the King of Great Britain can be classified as:

a. Titular Sovereignty
b. Real Sovereignty
c. Popular Sovereignty
d. Legal Sovereignty
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Titular Sovereignty

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


41)   Which one of the following described laws as a command of the sovereign:

a. Austin
b. Locke
c. Mooney
d. Laski
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Austin

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


42)   According to the concept of Plural Sovereignty:

a. Sovereignty lies in the state only
b. Sovereignty lies in the Parliament
c. Sovereignty lies in the Kind
d. Sovereignty lies in all the associations of the state
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sovereignty lies in all the associations of the state

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


43)   According to Rousseau sovereignty resides in:

a. The General Will
b. The Real Will
c. The Actual Will
d. The King
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The General Will

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


44)   Sovereignty is an essential element of:

a. Society
b. State
c. Government
d. Nation
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: State

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


45)   The Pluralist thinkers have attacked the concept of sovereignty on a number of grounds. Which of the following is not a ground of their attack on sovereignty?

a. The concept of sovereignty is against the freedom of association
b. The concept of sovereignty is against individual liberty
c. The concept of sovereignty is against the ideal of international peace and harmony
d. The concept of sovereignty is unethical
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The concept of sovereignty is unethical

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


46)   "If a determinate human superior not in a habit of obedience to a like superior receives habitual obedience from the bulk of a given society, that determinate superior is sovereign in that society; and the society (including the superior) is a society political and independent". Which of the followings said this?

a. Hobbes
b. Jean Bodin
c. Austin
d. Laski
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Austin

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


47)   In India the legal sovereignty lies in the

a. Parliament
b. Supreme Court
c. President
d. Electorate
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Parliament

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


48)   The Courts recognise only:

a. Legal sovereign
b. Political sovereign
c. Popular sovereignty
d. All the above sovereigns
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Legal sovereign

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


49)   De facto sovereign refers to:

a. A person who is the lawful ruler of the country
b. King who has lawfully inherited to the throne
c. A person or body of persons who actually exercise power
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: A person or body of persons who actually exercise power

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


50)   De jure sovereign refers to:

a. A person who has legal right to govern and command obedience.
b. A person who is authorised by Parliament to rule the country
c. A person in whom the entire authority is vested by the constitution but does not make use of that power
d. The constitutional ruler of state
Answer  Explanation 

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

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!