laboursonline – MCQs, Mock Tests | Political Science-[FPSC-U.S A. CSS] Political Science Sovereignty Of State Set-1

The world sovereignty derives its origin from superanus which belongs to language:

1. Green
2. Latin
3. English
4. French

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who is ancient past felt that sovereignty was the fullness of the state?

1. Romans
2. Greek
3. Muslims
4. Arabs

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who believed that sovereignty extended to all individuals and associations living in the state?

1. St. Augustine
2. Aristotle
3. Bodin
4. Rousseau

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who of the following distinguished between the sovereignty of the people and political sovereignty?

1. Plato
2. Aristotle
3. Hobbes
4. Locke

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who believed that sovereignty vested in the general will?

1. Hobbes
2. Locke
3. Grotius
4. Rousseau

✅ Correct Answer: 4

External aspect of sovereignty was fully developed by:

1. John Austin
2. Grotius
3. Bodin
4. Hobbes

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Name of John Austin in the development of sovereignty is associated with:

1. Internal aspect
2. External aspect
3. Legal theory
4. Philosophical theory

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who of the following said that strictly speaking sovereignty is an internal power, pick that up?

1. Gettell
2. Gilchrist
3. John Coulhon
4. Liber

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following is not an essential characteristic of sovereignty?

1. Permanence
2. Exclusiveness
3. All comprehensiveness
4. Wealth

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who of the following said that sovereignty is an entire thing?

1. John Coulhon
2. Dicey
3. Sir Henry Maine
4. Laski

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who said that sovereignty can no more be alienated or transferred?

1. John Coulhon
2. Laski
3. Liber
4. Prince Kropotkin

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Legal sovereignty is one which is accepted by:

1. All the persons in and outside the state
2. By outside people alone
3. By international organisations alone
4. By associations in the state only

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Political sovereign is:

1. Recognised by national courts
2. Recognised by international courts
3. One which has no legal status
4. None of the these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

A sovereign in the state who simply heads the state is technically called:

1. Absolute sovereign
2. De facto sovereign
3. Political sovereign
4. Titular sovereign

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Hohn Austin who expounded his theory of sovereignty was:

1. Roman
2. Greek
3. French
4. English

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who said that sovereign should be determinate human superior?

1. Grotius
2. Bodin
3. Locke
4. Austin

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Pluralists attack on sovereignty has come in the writings of:

1. Maitland
2. Sorel
3. Herbert Spencer
4. J.S. Mill

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Lectures on Jurisprudence is a book written by:

1. Laski
2. Grotius
3. Maitland
4. Austin

✅ Correct Answer: 4

If sovereignty is not absolute no state can exist. This is a statement made by:

1. Laski
2. Gettell
3. Austin
4. Barker

✅ Correct Answer: 3

According to whom sovereignty is not absolute and authority is shared by the state with other associations and groups?

1. Hegel
2. Bentham
3. Maitland
4. Austin

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In India sovereignty vests in the hands of:

1. Constitution
2. Government
3. People
4. Prime Minister

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Sovereignty does not reside in a determinate human superior who said that?

1. G.D.H. Cole
2. Hobbes
3. Bodin
4. Sir Henry Maine

✅ Correct Answer: 4

By Titular sovereign we mean:

1. An absolute sovereign
2. A sovereign in name
3. None of both
4. De facto sovereign

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Popular sovereignty lies in:

1. People
2. Political elite
3. Members of Parliament
4. Judiciary

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Sovereignty of Queen of Great Britain can be classified as:

1. Titular sovereignty
2. Real sovereignty
3. Popular sovereignty
4. Legal sovereignty

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following is not an attribute of sovereignty?

1. Permanence
2. Inalienability
3. Indivisibility
4. Delegation of authority

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Legal sovereignty in India vests with:

1. President
2. Prime Minister
3. Council of Ministers
4. Cabinet

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Pluralists believe in one of the following characteristics of sovereignty namely:

1. Divisibility
2. Comprehensiveness
3. Permanence
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Characteristics of legal sovereignty is that it is:

1. Not precise
2. Not well organised
3. Fully well organised and precise
4. Not recognised by law

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Hobbes believed in one of the following characteristics of sovereignty namely:

1. Limited
2. Consititutional
3. Absolute
4. Divided

✅ Correct Answer: 3

One of the important critics of Austins concept of sovereignty has been:

1. J.S.Mill
2. Bodin
3. Grotius
4. Mhenry Maine

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Of the following legal concept of sovereignty was advocated by:

1. Hobbes
2. Locke
3. Rousseau
4. Jean Bodin

✅ Correct Answer: 4

First western writer to develop systematic doctrine of sovereignty was:

1. John Austin
2. Grotius
3. Plato
4. T.H.Green

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Sovereignty is the suprime will of the state was said by:

1. G.D.H. Cole
2. Sorel
3. Duguit
4. Bodin

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The high priest of sovereignty was:

1. J.S.Mill
2. T.H. Green
3. Machiavelli
4. Rousseau

✅ Correct Answer: 4

One of the salient features of the theory of sovereignty as expounded by Hobbes was that he stood for its:

1. Transference from other sovereignty
2. Its perpetuity
3. Its indivisibility
4. Its inalienability

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The sovereignty with reference to state means:

1. Absolute powers both internally and externally
2. Legal unrestricted and unlimited powers
3. Supreme law making authority
4. The powers of an absolute monarch

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Where does legal sovereignty vest?

1. Bulk of society
2. Determinate human superior
3. In the like superior
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The term sovereignty has been derived originally from language:

1. English
2. Greek
3. Latin
4. Roman

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who said that it is impossible to make the legal theory of sovereignty valid for political philosophy?

1. Austin
2. Grotius
3. Gettell
4. Laski

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The type of sovereignty which is known to the courts of land is known as:

1. De-jure Sovereignty
2. De-facto Sovereignty
3. Popular Sovereignty
4. Political Sovereignty

✅ Correct Answer: 1

If a determinate human superior not in the habit of obedience to a like superior, receives habitual obedience from the bulk of a given society, that determinate superior is sovereign in that society; and the society (including superior) is a society political and independent.Who of the following said this?

1. Hobbes
2. Laski
3. Jean Bodin
4. Austin

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who one of the following is associated with the statement if sovereignty is not absolute no state will exist?

1. John Locke
2. Hegel
3. Austin
4. Holland

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Concept of legal sovereignty was for the first time pronounced by:

1. St. Augustine
2. Hobbes
3. Machiavelli
4. Locke

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In a domocracy legal sovereign in the ultimate analysis bound to bow before:

1. De-jure Sovereign
2. Political Sovereign
3. Nominal Sovereign
4. Internal Sovereign

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following is not an essential element of sovereignty?

1. It is indivisible
2. It is permanent
3. It is inalienable
4. It is delegated to some one else by the state

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Sovereignty is attribute of:

1. Democratic state
2. Distatorship
3. Constitutional monarchy
4. All types of states

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Those who believe in the division of sovereignty are known as:

1. Individualist
2. Democrats
3. Absolutists
4. Socialists

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In India the legal soverignty lies in the:

1. Parliaments
2. Supreme Court
3. President
4. Electorate

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The concept of popular sovereignty is associated with the name of:

1. Locke
2. Rousseau
3. Maitland
4. Laski

✅ Correct Answer: 2