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

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1. 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

2. Who said that democracy is the Government of the people for the people and by the people?

   A. Lincoln
   B. Bryce
   C. Dicey
   D. Herodotus

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

   A. Dicey
   B. Bryce
   C. Leacock
   D. Woodrow Wilson
   E. Lincoln

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

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

5. In democracy public opinion is necessary. Which of the following is true about the meaning public opinion in democracy?

   A. It means majority opinion
   B. It means unanimous opinion
   C. It means opinion of intelligent people in the society
   D. It means opinion of dominant sections based on common good

6. 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

7. “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

8. Initiative is a device of direct democracy, which confers a right on the people:

   A. To suggest candidates for appointment to various offices
   B. To suggest legislative measures which the legislature is not enacting
   C. To reject the laws passed b the legislature
   D. To seek judicial opinion regarding the constitutionality of laws enacted by the legislature

9. The basic principle of Liberal democracy that the sovereign drew his authority from the people was first developed by:

   A. J.S.Mill
   B. Hobbes
   C. Locke
   D. None of the above

10. One of the essential conditions for the success of democracy is that the people should be:___________?

    A. Propertied one
    B. Educated
    C. Devoted to social service
    D. Well versed in the game of politics