Who defined democracy saying that ‘democracy is a form of Government in which will of the majority of the qualified persons rules’?

Related Mcqs:

1. Who of the following has defined liberalism by saying, “Liberalism as a political creed is a compound of two separate elements? One of these is democracy and the other individualism”.

   A. MacGovern
   B. Sartori
   C. Laski
   D. Karl Marx
   E. Robert A.Dahl

2. 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

3. Who has defined liberty by saying “freedom is not the absence of restraints but rather the substitution of rational ones for the irrational”?

   A. Seeley
   B. Gettell
   C. G.D.H. Cole
   D. Mackechnie
   E. Laski

4. Lord Bryce has written “That form of government in which the ruling power of a state is legally vested, not in any particular class, but in the members of the community as a whole”. Which form of government he is referring to _________?

   A. Democracy
   B. Parliamentary government
   C. Federal government
   D. Unitary government

5. Who defined democracy as “a government in which everyone has a share”?

   A. Rousseau
   B. Bryce
   C. Seeley
   D. Abraham Lincoln

6. Who defined democracy as “Government of the people, by the people, for the people”?

   A. Woodrow Wilson
   B. Lord Bryce
   C. Abraham Lincoln
   D. Laski

7. Lord Bryce has written, “That form of Government in which ruling power of the state is legally vested not in any particular class but, in the members of community as a whole. Which form of Government he is referring to?

   A. Democracy
   B. Federal
   C. Unitary
   D. Presidential
   E. Parliamentary

8. The concept of tyranny of majority in democracy is advocated by: __________?

   A. Green
   B. J.S.Mill
   C. Thomas Paine
   D. De Tocqueville

9. Who defined democracy as “Government of the people, by the people, for the people”?

   A. Woodrow
   B. Abraham Lincoln
   C. Laski
   D. Gandhi

10. The Abbaside Caliph al-Qaim appointed him as the Chief justice (Qazi-ul-Qazat) of his Government and he refused the offer saying that there were far abler people who deserve the title much more than himself. Who was that saintly philosopher?

    A. Al-Farabi
    B. Al-Ghazali
    C. Al-Mawardi
    D. None of these