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The principle of check and balances among levels of government was introduced by
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For Plato, the ideal state must be built on
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Machiavelli pioneered the application of method in the study of politics
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held that an individual who can live by himself alone, outside the polis, is either a beast or a god
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___ is the propounder of harm principle
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The citizens of the world state of the stoics consist of __ and ___
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Do the individuals in Hobbes' commonwealth possess the right to rebel against their ruler?
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___ brought about the fall of men in Seneca's golden age
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The school where Plato taught his political and other theories is known as the__________
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Political thought establishes the ____ upon which states and their machineries can be objectively assessed
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Which of these is not among the fathers of the church?
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Which of these is not among the powers of the sovereign as ascribed to by Jean Bodin?
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Complete this saying of J. S. Mill “over himself, his body and mind, the individual is ___"
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Marriage and ownership of property is the sole preserve of ___ in Plato's ideal state
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In Hobbes' state of nature man is governed by ___
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According to Cicero, all men are equal because they possess
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revolution resulted in the transfer of power from the king to the parliament
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Aquianas' name for the type of law which is a reflection of divine wisdom in created things is ____
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Historical idealism is to Hegel as ___ is to Marx
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The presence of ___ is the most distinguishing factor between the state and other associations in the political thought of Jean Bodin
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Aristotle considered the pursuit of ___ as the end or purose of state
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Aquinas maintained that the main purpose of man on earth is the attainment of ___
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The most defining element of an ideal state in Aristotle is ____
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As a young student, Marx embraced ___ which greatly influenced his future writings
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In Plato's political thought, which of these is not among the three classes of people in the state?
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In the philosophy of Karl Marx, interest determines human values
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According to Machiavelli the good ruler must possess the character of an animal called
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The constitution which governs the stoics' world state is
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In Aquianas political thought, is a devout Christian bound to obey the orders of a pagan ruler
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held that political carrer has nothing good to offer the good man but will rather extinguish his goodness
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Rousseau believed that the first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said, “This is mine,” and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of
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The city state, according to Plato and Aristotle, is characterised by
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In Locke's political thought, all men are God's ____
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Hobbes' social contract is an agreement between the subject and ___
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Which of these is not a thinker of the enlightenment?
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Rousseau political thought emphasised the primacy of the ____ in determining political authority
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Happiness is defined by as the avoidance of pains, worry and axiety
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In the Hobbessian commonwealth, the leviethan is not a party to the
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Political thought is regarded as disciplined investigation of political that have interested philosophers over the ages
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According to Epicureans the wise man should avoid except when compelled by circumstances
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Which of these is not among the best form of government acoording to Aristotle?
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The saying that the end justifies the means is derived from whose political philosophy?
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Epicureans believe that the do not care about men and do not interfer either for good or bad in their affairs
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According to Karl Marx, obedience to the state is absurd. Therefore, the state should be overthrown through a
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According to Marsilio's two good lives, the first good life consists of proper study of
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In Socrates' philosophy, knowledge is equated with
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Code Napoleon ephasised that the state should not encroach on the individual of the citizens
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According to Bodin, the state is distinguished from band of robbers only on the fact that it exercises ____
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Another name for the Greek city states is
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Which of these is not among the basic rights of individuals in John Locke?
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