A. Each individual surrendered his powers to the King
B. Each individual surrendered his powers to the Parliament
C. Each individual surrendered his powers to the Community
D. Each person received certain rights from the King
Related Mcqs:
- Hobbes holds that under the contract which resulted in the creation of state:
A. People surrendered all their rights to the sovereign unconditionally
B. People surrendered their rights subject to certain conditions
C. Surrendered only their rights to property and religion
D. People refused to surrender their rights - According to Locke under the contract people surrendered:
A. All rights
B. Only the natural rights
C. Only right to property
D. Only right to interpret and enforce the laws of nature - “Really I think that the poorest he that is in England bath a life, as the greatest he, and therefore truly, sir, I think it is clear that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent to put himself under the government, and I do think that the poorest ram in England is not at all bound in a strict sense to the Government that he bath not had a voice to put himself under”. The statement argues for
A. Rule according to the consent of the governed
B. Rule of the poor
C. Expropriation of the rich
D. Distribution of wealth equally to all - In Hobbes contract sovereign was: ___________?
A. Party to the contract
B. Above the contract
C. Below the people
D. To be elected in a democratic manner - Rousseau’s theory of social contract very much influenced the organizers of: ____________?
A. Industrial Revolution
B. French Revolution
C. Glorious Revolution
D. Glorious Revolution
E. Russian Revolution - The book in which Hobbes gave theory of Social Contract is entitled:
A. Leviathan
B. Social contract theory
C. A History of Political Theory
D. The Modern State - Locke propounded his theory of Social Contract in the book entitled:
A. Lectures on Jurisprudence
B. Two Treatises on Civil Government
C. Social Contract
D. Representative Government - Who wrote the following terms of the social contract? “I authorise and give up my right of governing myself to this man, or to this assembly of men, on this condition that thou give up thy right to him, and authorise all his actions in the like manner”.
A. Rousseau
B. Locke
C. Hobbes
D. Spinoza - The Social Contract theory replaced:
A. The Force theory
B. Divine Origin theory
C. Patriarchal theory
D. Matriarchal theory - Which one of the following defects of the Social Contract theory is correct?
A. It attached undue importance to religion
B. It attached too much of importance to force
C. It supported the ‘Divine Right of the Kings’
D. It is historically wrong
