Which one of the following statements gives a correct definition of a constitution?

A. The rule and procedures concerning the relationships among the structures of Government and their principal powers and functions
B. A fundamental statement of laws governing the citizens’s political rights, the political institutions, their functions and their relationships within a particular political community
C. A primary source of constitutional law, which serves as a guide for the decisions of the courts of law which interpret the rules
D. The ordering of political processes and institutions on the basic of a document that lays down the pattern of formal political institutions and embodies the basic political norms of a society

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Which one of the following descriptions gives a definition of bureaucracy?
A. A set of government officials, possessed of certain traits of excessive formality, the use of verbiage and jargon as the basis of communication, inflexibility of procedure and insistence on the powers of their office
B. A career based appointed administrative service of fixed status and tenure with salary limited to rank and a known rank order of advancement
C. A particular pattern of administrative behaviour, associated with certain types of social organization and identificable by reference to a constellation of objective criteria
D. The activity concerned with the implementation of policies by the direction or management of efforts of individuals and groups towards specific goals
Which one of the following statements is incorrect with reference to Austin’s definition of sovereignty?
A. It resides in a determinate human superior
B. The determinate human superior should not be in the habit of obedience to like superior
C. The determinate human superior receives habitual obedience from the bluk of population of given society
D. The determinate human superior must be responsible for his acts to the elected representatives of the people
E. The determinate human superior must be capable of being located
Which one of the following statements is the best definition of the public opinion?
A. The aggregate of all identical personal opinions on a specific issue
B. The sum-total of the opinions of a majority
C. The aggregate of personal opinions held by certain influential individuals
D. Politically significant views shared and voiced by relatively large segments in a political community
Which of the following is correct definition of democracy?
A. In it people are sovereign
B. In it working classes govern
C. In it rich and poor cooperate really with each other
D. In it propertied adults have right to elect their representatives
Which one of the following statements is correct?
A. The government is the master while the state is its agent
B. The state is the master while the government is its agent
C. Government and state are one and the same thing
D. The authority of the state is limited while that of the government is unlimted
Which one of the following statements is correct?
A. Right to property is a natural right
B. Right to property needs the backing of society
C. Right to property needs no sanction of society
D. Right to private property is absolute
Which one of the following statements is not correct?
A. Austin’s theory of sovereignty is in keeping with the notions of popular sovereignty
B. Austin’s theory of sovereignty is not in keeping with the notions of popular sovereignty
C. Austin exaggerates the element of force when he describes law as a command of the sovereign
D. Austin fails to draw a distinction between, legal and political sovereignty
Which one of the following statements is correct?
A. The legal sovereign in England is the Queen or the King
B. The legal sovereign in England is the People
C. The legal sovereign in England is the House of Commons
D. The legal sovereign in England is the Queen/King-in-Parliament
Which one of the following statements is correct about social contract theory?
A. The state is a natural institution
B. The state is gradual evolution
C. The state was created by God
D. The state is the result of a contract
E. The state is the result of a conquest
Which one of the following statements is correct about socialism?
A. I leads to concentratior of wealth
B. It favours establishment of private enterprises
C. It wants to establish just and equitable society
D. It gives more importance to individual