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POL126
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1. The process which
encompasses the practice
of quotas, set-asides,
weighing gender as a
priority with the objective of
enhancing equal
opportunity is known as
_action
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2. The ----- is greater than an
individual or any of it
constituent units.
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3. The placing of the individual
at the centre of the society
presupposes ------
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4. Which duty require
individual members of a
state to refrain from
performing bad acts?
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5. In the Nigerian society
there is ------ because most
people do not comply with
most laws most of the time.
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6. The decision forcing Nigeria
to cede Bakassi Peninsula
to Cameroon was in line
with the ----- ruling.
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7. In which theory does
fundamental human right
operate as structural device
for government.
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8. This is considered to be the
first exponent of the idea of
natural individual rights: ----
--
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9. When a citizen goes on
hunger strike in protest
against some government
practice or policy, the action
is said to be
_.
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10. The patriarchal theory was
derived from the records of
the ancient law of the -----
and Hindu.
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11. For Hegel, while conflicts
and their resolutions may
be inevitable features of
any society, the state exists
to ----
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12. According to Hegel, the
state is a rational order
which exists, essentially, to
achieve ----
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13. A government of laws is by
definition a
_government.
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14. Moral reasoning is the
premise of ------
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15. The ----- theory is premised
on" an agreement entered
into by men and and
women who originally had
no governmental
organization which resulted
into a state.
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16. The state is bound by the
supreme law of the land
called the
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17. He posited that a State is
founded when ‘a leader,
with his band of warriors,
gets permanent control of a
definite territory of a
considerable size’: ------
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18. An absolute State,
according to Hobbes, is
based on ----
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19. Negative and Positive rights
are two natures of
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20. _and are the two defining
features of public goods.
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21. The Patriarchal theory was
derived from one of the
following sources
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22. The Latin word
‘Superamus’ means -----
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23. Positive rights or positive
liberty implies ------
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24. The condition of 'warre' in
the state of nature means
and
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25. The social contract theory
of Rousseau was inspired
by -----
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26. For Locke, unlike Hobbes,
power resides with ----- and
not with the Government.
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27. The following words
‘Trancedental, inalienable,’
‘primordial’ can also be
used in reference to
_rights.
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28. The American Declaration
of Independence (1776)
and the French Declaration
of Human Rights (1789)
find expression in the idea
of
_individual rights.
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29. The Two Treaties of
Government can be
credited to -----
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30. The premise of ------- theory
is that a state is a power,
separated from, in fact
standing above society.
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31. Constitutional or limited
government means -----
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32. The Hegelian Organic and
Liberal-Democratic
Theories agree on ------
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33. Sovereignty is legal when it
is ----- that fall within the
jurisdiction of sovereignty
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34. National defence, good
roads, health programmes,
law and order are examples
of ------
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35. The tradition of atomistic
individualism in Western
societies presupposes that
the state should be -----
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36. _liberty motivates purposes
which are rationally selfdetermined, as opposed to
irrational passions.
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37. Civil Society means a form
of__
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38. One of the conditions of
civil society is that the state
------
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39. According to Hume, among
savage tribes the long
continuance of the state
made people to -----
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40. The process of acquiring
citizenship when a person
is born before and after the
date of independence, if
either parents belongs to a
community indigenous to
Nigeria is by
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41. The phrase “sense of
autonomy” or “self
determination” means
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42. Prior the emergences of the
nation state, members of
society were governed by
masters who own land
under the
_system of government.
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43. When a citizen supports
and complies with just
institutions, such action is in
accord with the principle of
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44. The concept of law is
regarded as a ----- of the
sovereign state directed to
the subjects as a regulator
of conduct.
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45. The state has to transcend
being a “set of broad
organizing principles which
constitutes the enduring
and continuous pattern of
rule and governance” into a
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46. and
_are the two perspectives
of liberty by Isaiah Berlin.
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47. The
_theory is against the redistribution of wealth
through the State
machinery
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48. Regionalization in Nigeria
was instituted in the bid to
operationalize the
_principle.
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49. What is the premise of a
citizen’s obligation to the
state?
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50. The ------ is known as a
contracted human
organization/institution.
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