Who, said that ‘state is power and it is sin for the state to be weak?

Related Mcqs:

1. The position of the Kings during the Holy Roman Empire was rendered weak due to:_________?

   A. Non-assertion of their authority
   B. The rise of the class of feudal lords
   C. Usurpation of their power by the Pope
   D. Rise of feudal lords and Popes

2. Which theory of justice is based on the principle ‘kill the sin and not the sinner’?

   A. Retributive theory of justice
   B. Reformative Theory
   C. Deterrent Theory of Justice
   D. None of the above

3. “Where political parties are weak in principle and organisation, the pressure groups will flourish; where political parties are strong, pressure groups will be curbed”. Who made the above observation?

   A. Barker
   B. Bryce
   C. Herman Finer
   D. Harold Laski

4. Who said about the origin of the state that ‘will’ not ‘force’ is the basis of the state?

   A. Bentham
   B. J.S.Mill
   C. James Mill
   D. T.H.Green
   E. Grotius

5. Who said: “good citizens make a good state and bad citizens make a bad state”?

   A. Kant
   B. Aristotle
   C. Marx
   D. None of these

6. Who said that organic theory of the state is not a trustworthy guide to state activity?

   A. Ebestein
   B. Leacock
   C. MacIver
   D. Gilchrist
   E. Gettell

7. Who said that a state without a constitution would not be a state but a regime of anarchy?

   A. Professor Jellineck
   B. Gilchrist
   C. Leacock
   D. Finer
   E. Gettell

8. Who said that property is the source of power?

   A. Machiavelli
   B. Aristotle
   C. Plato
   D. Laski

9. Who said “No sovereign has any where possessed unlimited power; and the attempt to exert it has always resulted in the establishment of safeguards”?

   A. Sir Henry Maine
   B. Hobbes
   C. Bodin
   D. Laski

10. Who of the following said that strictly speaking sovereignty is an internal power, pick that up?

    A. Gettell
    B. Gilchrist
    C. John Coulhon
    D. Liber