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Related Mcqs:

1. The concept of justice in the sense of greatest happiness of the greatest number was popularized by:_________?

   A. Aristotle
   B. Rousseau
   C. Laski
   D. Bentham

2. Who compared the voice of the people with the voice of God:

   A. Hobbes
   B. Laski
   C. Machiavelli
   D. Green

3. In order to determine the proper role of government in a society it is useful to distinguish between “the part of a person’s life which concerns only himself and that which concerns others” according to: _________?

   A. J.S. Mill
   B. Locke
   C. Godwin
   D. Bentham

4. Who of the following said that ‘rights are those conditions of social life without which no man can seek in general to be himself at his best’?

   A. Laski
   B. Marx
   C. Spencer
   D. Rousseau
   E. Montesquieu

5. Who said “Rights are those conditions of social life without which no man can seek in general, to be himself of his best”?

   A. Hobbes
   B. Laski
   C. Aristotle
   D. Rousseau

6. “Liberty therefore, is never real unless the Government can be called to account when it invades rights.” (Laski)
   Which one of the following is the just justification to the above statement?
   

   A. It the realisation of that the government can be brought to book in a court of law
   B. In identifying a man as a political unit in a way which distinguishes him from other citizens
   C. In a decentralized society wherein the basic needs of men can find satisfaction
   D. In the understanding that liberty and restraints are complementary

7. 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

8. The principle of ‘greatest good of the greatest number’ was advocated by: ________?

   A. The Individualists
   B. The socialists
   C. Idealists
   D. Utilitarianists

9. Which one of the following thinkers challenged the right of the stte to curtail individual’s right to property without his consent?

   A. Hobbes
   B. Locke
   C. Rousseau
   D. All the above three thinkers

10. In 1905 Allama Iqbal went to England for higher education. In which institution of England he got education?

    A. Oxford University (London)
    B. Trinity College Cambridge
    C. Cambridge University
    D. Lincoln Inn