POL126

1. The right to participate in

political decision making

relates to -----

2. The state is bound by the

supreme law of the land

called the

3. The tradition of atomistic

individualism in Western

societies presupposes that

the state should be -----

4. The provision of economic

and social goods by the

state to the poor citizens

makes the state a

5. 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

6. Prior the emergences of the

nation state, members of

society were governed by

masters who own land

under the

_system of government.

7. This is considered to be the

first exponent of the idea of

natural individual rights: ----

--

8. The Secondary Imperatives

of the State are ------ in

nature

9. _liberty motivates purposes

which are rationally self￾determined, as opposed to

irrational passions.

10. The January 1966 coup

was led by Major

Chukwuma

11. One of the conditions of

civil society is that the state

------

12. The condition of 'warre' in

the state of nature means

and

13. This differentiates the

modern state from the

feudal or traditional society:

------

14. The main task of

safeguarding the personal

and civil rights of its citizens

is that of the

15. Free speech, free press,

the rights to assembly and

organization are examples

of

16. The concept of law is

regarded as a ----- of the

sovereign state directed to

the subjects as a regulator

of conduct.

17. John Locke is the first

exponent of the

_individual rights.

18. The principle of

_underlines a citizen’s

obligation to an institution

or state.

19. The ---- theory proposed

that the 'state is the result

of the subjugation of the

weaker by the stronger'

20. The most significant

component of British

constitutional bill of rights is

the great charter of

21. The rights to minimum of

vital necessities such as

food, shelter and aid refer

to ------

22. This is one of the attributes

of rights: ------

23. The essential attributes of a

state as a contracted

human

organization/institution is its

provision of

_Goods

24. The idea that an individual

has certain inherent rights

which are connected to

human nature is at the core

of

25. The social contract theory

of Rousseau was inspired

by -----

26. The entitlement of a set of

rights and obligations

confers the status of

on the individual.

27. The ----- is larger than the

political system.

28. Prima facie moral obligation

means -----

29. The rights to development,

social and physical

environment as well as

peace are known as -----

30. The principle of natural

duties and the principle of

are two distinctive

principles of justice

according to Rawls.

31. The ------ concept assumes

that nothing is desired for

its own sake, except

pleasure.

32. The power which the

government of a state

posseses to enforce the law

entrenched in the

constitution is known as

33. Negative rights or negative

liberty means ------

34. The obligation of the citizen

to obey the laws of the

state is dependent upon the

government ------

35. Sovereignty is legal when it

is ----- that fall within the

jurisdiction of sovereignty

36. Citizenship as defined by

_denotes all persons whom

a state is entitled to protect.

37. Fundamental benefits to the

citizens such as national

defence, good roads, health

programmes are refered to

as

38. The patriarchal theory was

derived from the records of

the ancient law of the -----

and Hindu.

39. The

_feature is applicable to the

availability of collective

goods to all members in a

group in a state.

40. The American Declaration

of Independence (1776)

and the French Declaration

of Human Rights (1789)

find expression in the idea

of

_individual rights.

41. The notion that the state is

a ‘neutral, though coercive,

force’ is a proposition by ----

-- theorists

42. The

theory is an agreement

entered into by men&

women who originally had

no governmental

organization.

43. For Locke, unlike Hobbes,

power resides with ----- and

not with the Government.

44. The placing of the individual

at the centre of the society

presupposes ------

45. Who argued that the State

is at “the centre of

continuous struggle with

other organizations, over

the right and ability to make

binding rules in society”: ----

--

46. The patriarchal theory

posits that the foundation of

the modern State was

characterized by three

features namely

_,

and

.

47. Moral reasoning is the

premise of ------

48. The ---- is capable of

regulating and affecting the

actions of man, including

that of the state.

49. The state is an association

of human beings with the

appearance of ------ for

political ends

50. The claim which the

individual can make both on

the state as well as on

other citizens is known as