Who said that ‘parties are the power behind the throne’:

Related Mcqs:

1. Who described political parties as ‘power behind the throne’?

   A. MacIver
   B. Lord Bryce
   C. Burke
   D. Herman Finer

2. Political parties have been described as power behind the throne by:

   A. Herman Finel
   B. Sabine
   C. MacIver
   D. Burke

3. “Where political parties are weak in principle and organisation, the pressure groups will flourish; where political parties are strong, pressure groups will be curbed”. Who made the above observation?

   A. Barker
   B. Bryce
   C. Herman Finer
   D. Harold Laski

4. Napoleonic Empire was overthrown by Austria, Prussian and Britain in ______ when they restored the Bourborn Kings to the French throne.

   A. 1806
   B. 1809
   C. 1815
   D. 1821

5. At the time of the Battle of Agincourt (1415) the throne of France was virtually vacant because:

   A. The French King Charles VI had gone mad
   B. The French throne was occupied by a woman who, because of the Salic law, was not recognized
   C. The French King had just been assassinated
   D. The Franch King was still an infant

6. That the law of the state is obeyed because there is punitive authority of the state behind it, is believed by the exponents of: _________?

   A. Patriarchal theory
   B. Matriarchal theory
   C. Theory of Divine origin
   D. Force theory

7. Who said that a ‘political party is a voluntary association of people for the purpose of attaining political power’:

   A. Gettell
   B. MacIver
   C. G.C.Field
   D. Finer

8. Who said that property is the source of power?

   A. Machiavelli
   B. Aristotle
   C. Plato
   D. Laski

9. Who said “No sovereign has any where possessed unlimited power; and the attempt to exert it has always resulted in the establishment of safeguards”?

   A. Sir Henry Maine
   B. Hobbes
   C. Bodin
   D. Laski

10. Who, said that ‘state is power and it is sin for the state to be weak?

    A. Jenks
    B. Herbert Spencer
    C. Leacock
    D. Triestchki