Who wrote the following terms of the social contract? “I authorise and give up my right of governing myself to this man, or to this assembly of men, on this condition that thou give up thy right to him, and authorise all his actions in the like manner”.

Related Mcqs:

1. Who said that in every age God the Almighty selects some one from among men and gives over to him the charge of the well-being of the world and the comfort and tranquility of the human race after duly furnishing him with the act of the Government:

   A. Al-Farabi
   B. Ibn-e-Khaldun
   C. Al-Ghazali
   D. Nizam-ul-Mulk Tusi

2. What innate faculty prevents civilized man from breaking the social contract?

   A. Reason
   B. Fear
   C. Altruism
   D. Greed

3. After being elected as the President of the first Constituent Assembly, Quaid-e-Azam appointed well-known constitutional exper(s) to prepare a daft incorporating with the laws of Islamic social justice. Name him/them?

   A. Justice M. Ismail
   B. Wasim
   C. M.B. Ahmad
   D. All of these

4. Locke propounded his theory of Social Contract in the book entitled:

   A. Lectures on Jurisprudence
   B. Two Treatises on Civil Government
   C. Social Contract
   D. Representative Government

5. Rousseau advocated his theory of Social Contract in the book:

   A. Social Contract
   B. Origin of the Species
   C. Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
   D. Modern State

6. 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

7. Rousseau felt that social living corrupted us leading to such ills as private property and social classes. Which of the following is his famous phrase arising from this reasoning?

   A. Workers of the world unite
   B. Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest
   C. Put the child in his place and keep him there
   D. Man was born free, but he is everywhere in chains

8. 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

9. Which one of the following thinkers did not criticize the theory of social contract?

   A. Karl Marx
   B. Wright
   C. Vaughan
   D. T.H. Green

10. Which one of the following is not associated with social contract theory?

    A. Hobbes
    B. Herbert Spencer
    C. Locke
    D. Rousseau