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(USA) Political Science Nature Theories and State Function Set 1
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1. In the past stte used to perform:
Welfare functions
Police functions
Optional functions
Maximum functions for human development
2. According to Karl Marx state:
Protects the interests of the poor
Gives maximum happiness to maximum number of people
Promotes exploitation of poor by the rich
Promotes moral welfare of the people
3. Most important responsibility of a welfare state is:
To preserve private property
To promote religion of people
To check exploitation
To check encroachments on fundamental rights
4. In ancient India most important function of the state was:
To expand
To give economic prosperity to the people
To prserve private property of citizens
To promote dharma
5. In a secular state the religion:
Of majority is promoted
Of minority is protected
Of State is promoted
Has nothing to do with politics
6. According to monistic theory about the functions of the state:
Individual has nothing to do with state
Individual and state must exist for each other
Individual should surrender very little to the state
State should perform minimum functions
7. Who believed that the state should protect and restrain and not foster and promote?
The Absolutists
The socialists
The Fabian Socialists
The Monistic
8. Who believed that the state has the same organs as the individuals?
The Dualists
The Socialists
The Organic Theory of State
None
9. Who believes that individual independent in his own way dependent on others?
The Monistic
The Dualists
The Socialists
The Anarchists
10. Who said that the state is individual magnified?
Plato
G.B. Vico
Waltair
Marx
11. Who said that individual is an instinct part of the state?
Aristotle
Locke
Rousseau
Lenin
12. Who believed that head of the state is comparable to the spirit of human body?
Grotius
St. Paul
Bluntschli
Cicero
13. Who said that state is image of human organism?
Locke
Bluntschli
Mosaca
August Comte
14. Whose name is primarily associated with organic theory of the state?
August Comte
MacIver
Herbert Spencer
T.H. Green
15. Organic theory of the state gave set back to:
Theory of Divine Origin
Anarchists
Syndicalists
Theory of Social Contract
16. Who said that organic theory of the state is not a trustworthy guide to state activity?
Ebestein
Leacock
MacIver
Gettell
17. Idealistic Theory is also called:
Socialistic theory
Divine theory
Anarchist theory
Metaphysical theory
18. The Idealists have:
Glorified state
Given minimum functions to state
Given only welfare functions to state
Have given individuals right to revolt against the state
19. Whose name is associated with Idealist theory of the state?
Hegel
Grotius
J.S. Mill
James Mill
20. Bosanquest s name is associated with:
Organic theory
Idealist theory
Anarchist theory
Socialist theory
21. Who said that state existed for the life and continues to exist for the sake of good life?
Plato
Aristotle
Spencer
Montesquieu
22. Who said that state is march of God on earth?
Locke
Rousseau
Hegel
Montesquieu
23. India is a secular state because in it there is:
Equality of status
Social Justice.
Equality before law
Liberty of worship
24. Essential function of state these days is:
Maintenance of law and order
Collection of maximum revenues
Punishing of the criminals
To maintain good transport system
25. Marx considers state:
A means of revolution
Class instrument
A welfare agency
A law-making agency
26. Which of the following can be called a secular state namely which:
Is anti-religious
Is irreligious
Declares all religions as state religions
Does not distinguish people on the basis of religion
27. Liberalism was written by:
Montesquieu
Spencer
Leacock Hobbes
Ludwig von Mises
28. Which is considered as optimal function of the state?
Opening educational institutions
Giving justice to the people
Preserving life of the people
Preserving law and order
29. Which one of the following to day is not considered as function of the state?
Imposing of taxes
Interfering in the religion of the people
Giving education to the people
Protecting one class of people against the other
30. According to Syndicalists the functions of the state should be taken over by:
Bureaucrats
Priests
Syndicates
Capitalists
31. According to Individualists state should:
Be given maximum powers
Have maximum interference in individual affairs
Perform maximum optional functions
Should least interfere in the affairs of individuals
32. The individualists believe that:
Individual is the best judge of his interests
He needs others to make min realise his welfare
State looks after best interests of the individuals
Guilds can promote individual s welfare
33. According to Individualists state activities:
Should remain as these are
Should be kept to the minimum
Should be expanded
Should be at the highest ebb
34. According to Absolutists:
Individual can develop in the state
State does not contribute in individual s development
State should not keep the individuals in his sphere of activity
Should not maintain law and order
35. According to Absolutists:
The state authority can be challenged
The state is one of the associations
The state should be put on high pedestals and worshipped
The individual has the right to rise against state
36. According to Absolutists:
Individual is much higher than the state
Individual should be scarified at the altar of the state
Individual s natural rights must be preserved
Individual should be guaranteed fundamental rights
37. According to Anarchists:
The state authority is not being misused
The state authority is not being misused
The state is misusing its authority
The state is using its position in favour of workers
38. According to Anarchists the present system of representation
Is very sound
Needs great encouragement
Should be replaced by functional representation
Is a mockery
39. According to Anarchists the state:
Should be given maximum functions
Should be given only compulsory functions
Should be given both compulsory as well functions
Should immediately be overthrown
40. Guild Socialists believe that:
State should perform maximum functions
Most of the present day functions of the state should be performed by guilds
State should perform all optional functions
State should actively interfere in individual s affairs
41. In our modern times the state is expected to perform:
Minimum functions
Only compulsory functions
Only optional functions
Both compulsory and optional functions
42. The compulsory functions of the state are those which:
State is given by the society to perform
State compulsorily takes upon itself
State is forced to take upon itself
If not performed the state will disintegrate
43. Optional functions of the state are those which:
If not performed the state will disintegrate
If not performed the very character of the state will change
If not performed the existence of state will not be in danger
If not performed the people will rise against the state
44. A welfare of state of today is supposed to perform:
Only compulsory functions
Only optional functions
Minimum functions
Both compulsory and optional functions
45. One of the compulsory functions of the state is to:
Defend the people from outside aggression
Regulate working hours of workers
To spread education
To maintain good transport system
46. A modern state is expected:
To ensure that citizens have healthy relations
Not to bother about individual s mutual relations
Least interfere in individual s mutual relationship
None of the above
47. Which of the following is not the optional function of the state?
Maintenance of diplomatic relations
Spread of education
Provide scholoarships for brilliant students
To maintain good postal system
48. Which one of the following is not compulsory function of state?
Enacting a constitution for the people
Specifying rights and duties of the people
Maintaining armed forces
Regulation of labour laws
49. In our times distinction between compulsory and optional functions:
Has consiiderably widened
Has remained as it was
Has altogether come to an end
Has considerably narrowed down
50. Those who believe that the state is an end in itself believe that: .
Should be widened
Should be narrowed down
State should have no functions
State should perform optional functions
51. Those who believe that the state is means to an end believe that:
Man is the highest aim of perfection
Nothing should be left to the individual
Individual is not the best judge of his interests
State should bother about removing hindrances
52. Who said that state came into being for the sake of life and continues for the sake of good life?
Plato
Aristotle
Spencer
Spinoza
53. Who of the following believed that state was Leviathan?
Hobbes
Locke
Rousseau
Aristotle
54. Who believed that end of the state is good of humanity?
Locke
Hobbes
Spencer
Grotius
55. Who said that everystate activity should aim at perfection of national life?
Burgess
Garner
Gettell
Bluntschli
56. For whom end of the state activity was advancement of civilisation and humanity as a whole:
Burgess
Locke
Bluntschli
Plato
57. In so far as limitation on state authority is concerned important one is:
Discharge of international obligations
Fear of educational institutions
Fear of dacoits and robbers
Fear of dacoits and robbers
58. Which of the following is not a limitation on state authority?
Religion and moral
Schools and colleges
Transport and communication
Labour laws
59. Which is the greatest limitation on the authority of the state?
Disruption of transport system
Disruption of consumption system
Sovereign will of the people
Slow land reform system
60. Who said that the state should aim at preserving destiny of humanity at international level?
Burgess
Bluntschli
Tucker
Sorel
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