Who of the following thinkers asserted the principle that consent of the people’ is the basis of state?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. Who asserted, “the state would ultimately wither away”?

   A. Kant
   B. Marx
   C. Aristotle
   D. None of the above

3. Who asserted that justice implies allotment of functions to a person in accordance with his ability and training?

   A. Barker
   B. Plato
   C. Aristotle
   D. None of the above

4. 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

5. 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

6. “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

7. Which group of the following thinkers emphasised the legal notion of state?

   A. Aristotle, Plato, Hobbes and Bentham
   B. Bodin, Hobbes, Bentham and Laski
   C. Bodin, Austin, Hobbes, Bentham
   D. Aristotle, Austin, Laki and Hobbes

8. Which one of the following group of thinkers do not draw any distinction between the governemtn and the state?

   A. Pluralists
   B. Socialists
   C. Capitalists
   D. All the above

9. Which one of the following thinkers put forth the idea of a welfare state?

   A. Hobbes
   B. Locke
   C. Laski
   D. Marx

10. Which one of the following thinkers is associated with the idealist theory of state?

    A. Hobbes
    B. Hegel
    C. J.S.Mill
    D. Laski