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1. The world sovereignty derives its origin from superanus which belongs to language:
Green
Latin
English
French
2. Who is ancient past felt that sovereignty was the fullness of the state?
Romans
Greek
Muslims
Arabs
3. Who believed that sovereignty extended to all individuals and associations living in the state?
St. Augustine
Aristotle
Bodin
Rousseau
4. Who of the following distinguished between the sovereignty of the people and political sovereignty?
Plato
Aristotle
Hobbes
Locke
5. Who believed that sovereignty vested in the general will?
Hobbes
Locke
Grotius
Rousseau
6. External aspect of sovereignty was fully developed by:
John Austin
Grotius
Bodin
Hobbes
7. Name of John Austin in the development of sovereignty is associated with:
Internal aspect
External aspect
Legal theory
Philosophical theory
8. Who of the following said that strictly speaking sovereignty is an internal power, pick that up?
Gettell
Gilchrist
John Coulhon
Liber
9. Which of the following is not an essential characteristic of sovereignty?
Permanence
Exclusiveness
All comprehensiveness
Wealth
10. Who of the following said that sovereignty is an entire thing?
John Coulhon
Dicey
Sir Henry Maine
Laski
11. Who said that sovereignty can no more be alienated or transferred?
John Coulhon
Laski
Liber
Prince Kropotkin
12. Legal sovereignty is one which is accepted by:
All the persons in and outside the state
By outside people alone
By international organisations alone
By associations in the state only
13. Political sovereign is:
Recognised by national courts
Recognised by international courts
One which has no legal status
None of the these
14. A sovereign in the state who simply heads the state is technically called:
Absolute sovereign
De facto sovereign
Political sovereign
Titular sovereign
15. Hohn Austin who expounded his theory of sovereignty was:
Roman
Greek
French
English
16. Who said that sovereign should be determinate human superior?
Grotius
Bodin
Locke
Austin
17. Pluralists attack on sovereignty has come in the writings of:
Maitland
Sorel
Herbert Spencer
J.S. Mill
18. Lectures on Jurisprudence is a book written by:
Laski
Grotius
Maitland
Austin
19. If sovereignty is not absolute no state can exist. This is a statement made by:
Laski
Gettell
Austin
Barker
20. According to whom sovereignty is not absolute and authority is shared by the state with other associations and groups?
Hegel
Bentham
Maitland
Austin
21. In India sovereignty vests in the hands of:
Constitution
Government
People
Prime Minister
22. Sovereignty does not reside in a determinate human superior who said that?
G.D.H. Cole
Hobbes
Bodin
Sir Henry Maine
23. By Titular sovereign we mean:
An absolute sovereign
A sovereign in name
None of both
De facto sovereign
24. Popular sovereignty lies in:
People
Political elite
Members of Parliament
Judiciary
25. Sovereignty of Queen of Great Britain can be classified as:
Titular sovereignty
Real sovereignty
Popular sovereignty
Legal sovereignty
26. Which of the following is not an attribute of sovereignty?
Permanence
Inalienability
Indivisibility
Delegation of authority
27. Legal sovereignty in India vests with:
President
Prime Minister
Council of Ministers
Cabinet
28. Pluralists believe in one of the following characteristics of sovereignty namely:
Divisibility
Comprehensiveness
Permanence
None
29. Characteristics of legal sovereignty is that it is:
Not precise
Not well organised
Fully well organised and precise
Not recognised by law
30. Hobbes believed in one of the following characteristics of sovereignty namely:
Limited
Consititutional
Absolute
Divided
31. One of the important critics of Austins concept of sovereignty has been:
J.S.Mill
Bodin
Grotius
Mhenry Maine
32. Of the following legal concept of sovereignty was advocated by:
Hobbes
Locke
Rousseau
Jean Bodin
33. First western writer to develop systematic doctrine of sovereignty was:
John Austin
Grotius
Plato
T.H.Green
34. Sovereignty is the suprime will of the state was said by:
G.D.H. Cole
Sorel
Duguit
Bodin
35. The high priest of sovereignty was:
J.S.Mill
T.H. Green
Machiavelli
Rousseau
36. One of the salient features of the theory of sovereignty as expounded by Hobbes was that he stood for its:
Transference from other sovereignty
Its perpetuity
Its indivisibility
Its inalienability
37. The sovereignty with reference to state means:
Absolute powers both internally and externally
Legal unrestricted and unlimited powers
Supreme law making authority
The powers of an absolute monarch
38. Where does legal sovereignty vest?
Bulk of society
Determinate human superior
In the like superior
None
39. The term sovereignty has been derived originally from language:
English
Greek
Latin
Roman
40. Who said that it is impossible to make the legal theory of sovereignty valid for political philosophy?
Austin
Grotius
Gettell
Laski
41. The type of sovereignty which is known to the courts of land is known as:
De-jure Sovereignty
De-facto Sovereignty
Popular Sovereignty
Political Sovereignty
42. If a determinate human superior not in the 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 superior) is a society political and independent.Who of the following said this?
Hobbes
Laski
Jean Bodin
Austin
43. Who one of the following is associated with the statement if sovereignty is not absolute no state will exist?
John Locke
Hegel
Austin
Holland
44. Concept of legal sovereignty was for the first time pronounced by:
St. Augustine
Hobbes
Machiavelli
Locke
45. In a domocracy legal sovereign in the ultimate analysis bound to bow before:
De-jure Sovereign
Political Sovereign
Nominal Sovereign
Internal Sovereign
46. Which of the following is not an essential element of sovereignty?
It is indivisible
It is permanent
It is inalienable
It is delegated to some one else by the state
47. Sovereignty is attribute of:
Democratic state
Distatorship
Constitutional monarchy
All types of states
48. Those who believe in the division of sovereignty are known as:
Individualist
Democrats
Absolutists
Socialists
49. In India the legal soverignty lies in the:
Parliaments
Supreme Court
President
Electorate
50. The concept of popular sovereignty is associated with the name of:
Locke
Rousseau
Maitland
Laski
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