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POL126
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1. According to Hume, among
savage tribes the long
continuance of the state
made people to -----
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2. 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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3. The tradition of atomistic
individualism in Western
societies presupposes that
the state should be -----
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4. The notion that the state is
a ‘neutral, though coercive,
force’ is a proposition by ----
-- theorists
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5. The principle of natural duty
is premised on the two
principles of
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6. The classical 1969 essay
tilted “Two concepts of
liberty” owes its credit to ----
--
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7. The duties of fidelity, of
reparation, of gratitude, of
justice, and of selfimprovement are examples
of -----
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8. 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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9. The main task of
safeguarding the personal
and civil rights of its citizens
is that of the
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10. This is one of the attributes
of rights: ------
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11. The state is an association
of human beings with the
appearance of ------ for
political ends
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12. Thoreau, Gandhi, Martin
Luther King and Ralph
Abernathy among others
are theorists of the
_character of civil
disobedience.
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13. The duties of fidelity,
reparation, gratitude, justice
are some of examples of
prima facie duties based on
_relations.
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14. Free speech, free press,
the rights to assembly and
organization are examples
of
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15. is the tendency on the part
of states to reserve their
public services exclusively
in the hands of their
indigenes or expendable
foreigners and ‘nonindigenes.
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16. The ultimate factor in moral
decisions and actions is not
necessarily the ‘good’ act,
but rather in the ------
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17. The formal distinction
between indigenes and
non-indigenes who are not
members of the native
community living in the area
of authority is
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18. Moral reasoning is the
premise of ------
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19. 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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20. Negative and Positive rights
are two natures of
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21. The premise of ------- theory
is that a state is a power,
separated from, in fact
standing above society.
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22. The text 'A Theory of
Justice' is credited to
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23. The ------ concept assumes
that nothing is desired for
its own sake, except
pleasure.
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24. The following words
‘Trancedental, inalienable,’
‘primordial’ can also be
used in reference to
_rights.
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25. The laws of society is only
legitimate to the extent that
the ------- rights of citizens
are respected.
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26. In a society fragmented into
‘contrasting interests’ the
state needs to ------
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27. The entitlement of a set of
rights and obligations
confers the status of
on the individual.
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28. According to W.K.
Frankena(1966) an
individual’s principle of
action is a moral one if it
satisfies two of the following
criteria ------
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29. When a citizen supports
and complies with just
institutions, such action is in
accord with the principle of
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30. Negative rights or negative
liberty means ------
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31. Which political system
guarantees fundamental
human rights?
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32. Direct action can be likened
to
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33. For rights to be legal and
enforceable it must be
recognised as law by the
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34. The ---- theory proposed
that the 'state is the result
of the subjugation of the
weaker by the stronger'
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35. The ----- theory conceived
the State as an extension of
the family.
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36. and
_are the two perspectives
of liberty by Isaiah Berlin.
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37. What organ is regarded as
competent by everyone to
formulate and create
binding legal norms in any
domestic society ------
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38. Legal protection and
access to the courts of law
entitlements are known as
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39. A State is founded by
successful migrations and -
----
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40. This principle of justice in
political obligation is
associated with the general
administration of
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41. Nigeria was amalgamated
in 1914 by sir
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42. The type of political protest
in which the dissenter uses
his/her own body as a lever
to pry loose the policy of
government is a civil
disobedient act referred to
as
_action.
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43. The American Declaration
of Independence (1776)
and the French Declaration
of Human Rights (1789)
find expression in the idea
_individual rights.
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44. In the impersonal state, the
status of a citizen was that
of a
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45. The ----- theory of the state
is adjudged as old
fashioned.
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46. For Locke, unlike Hobbes,
power resides with ----- and
not with the Government.
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47. Citizenship as defined by
_denotes all persons whom
a state is entitled to protect.
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48. The goods which, by their
character, cannot be shared
out among their
beneficiaries can be said to
be
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49. The condition of 'warre' in
the state of nature means
and
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50. The implication of states
being members of African
Union (AU), United Nations
(UN) is that the state will be
------ of the international
organization.
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