Who said: “A state is that agency in a society that is authorised to exercise coercive control within a territory”.

Related Mcqs:

1. “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?

   A. Hobbes
   B. Laski
   C. Jean Bodin
   D. Austin
   E. Rousseau

2. “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

3. Who said that the state is a people organised for law within a definite territory?

   A. Oppenheim
   B. Woodrow Wilson
   C. Laski
   D. Hall

4. Who defined state as “a community of persons more or less numerous, permanently occupying a difinite portion of territory independent or nearly so of external control, and possessing an organized government to which the great body of inhabitants render habitual obedience”?

   A. Woodrow Wilson
   B. Garner
   C. MacIver
   D. Holland

5. The largest state in terms of territory is:___________?

   A. China
   B. India
   C. USA
   D. Soviet Union

6. The territory of a state consists of:___________?

   A. Land
   B. Land and sea
   C. Land, rivers and mountains
   D. Land, territorial water and air space

7. Which one of the following writers does not consider territory as an essential element of state?

   A. Aristotle
   B. Hobbes
   C. Seeley
   D. JH.J. Laski

8. Who said that State is a territorial society divided into government and the subjects?

   A. Garner
   B. Finer
   C. Austin
   D. Laski

9. Who said that ‘State is a society of societies’?

   A. A.D. Lindsay
   B. H.J.Laski
   C. Aristotle
   D. None of the above

10. The state is a product of society at a certain stage of development when it has split into irreconcilable antagonisms, which it is powerless to dispel. To which of the following theories of the origin of the state does this statement belong?

    A. Social Contract
    B. Liberal
    C. Historical-Evolutionary
    D. Marxists