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POL126
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1. The
democratic system
restrains the arbitrary
exercise of state power and
ensures the respect for the
rights of the citizens.
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2. In a society fragmented into
‘contrasting interests’ the
state needs to ------
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3. The patriarchal theory
posits that the foundation of
the modern State was
characterized by three
features namely
_,
and
.
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4. The idea that an individual
has certain inherent rights
which are connected to
human nature is at the core
of
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5. The patriarchal theory was
derived from the records of
the ancient law of the -----
and Hindu.
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6. 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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7. Citizenship as defined by
_denotes all persons whom
a state is entitled to protect.
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8. 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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9. The Hegelian Organic and
Liberal-Democratic
Theories agree on ------
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10. The valid social contract for
all in a political system is
based on the
_which a citizen is entitled
to within a given state.
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11. The essential attributes of a
state as a contracted
human
organization/institution is its
provision of
_Goods
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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
_nature of the African
society is the basis of
denying any inalienable
rights to individual citizens.
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14. African societies have
argued that the ------ nature
of their society has been
the basis for the denial of
inalienable rights. to
individual citizens.
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15. Civil Society means a form
of__
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16. The Nigerian Civil Service
was regionalised in the
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17. The
_theory is against the redistribution of wealth
through the State
machinery
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18. _and are the two defining
features of public goods.
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19. When a citizen supports
and complies with just
institutions, such action is in
accord with the principle of
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20. The phrase “sense of
autonomy” or “self
determination” means
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21. The
_feature is applicable to the
availability of collective
goods to all members in a
group in a state.
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22. 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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23. _is when a citizen not only
loves his/her country but is
willing to defend the
integrity.
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24. The hypothetical situation
where the institutions of the
state do not exist is known
as a
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25. Constitutional or limited
government means -----
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26. 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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27. The democratic tradition
was inspired by ------
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28. 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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29. The fourth and final
objective of the state is -----
-
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30. The decision forcing Nigeria
to cede Bakassi Peninsula
to Cameroon was in line
with the ----- ruling.
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31. The ----- theory of the state
is adjudged as old
fashioned.
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32. Nigeria was amalgamated
in 1914 by sir
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33. The principle of natural duty
is premised on the two
principles of
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34. In the Nigerian society
there is ------ because most
people do not comply with
most laws most of the time.
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35. One important
characteristic of the state is
that it takes place in the
context of the ----- to which
all are subordinate.
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36. The declaration of the
Rights of Man and the
citizen was occasioned by
the French Revolution in
the year
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37. The classical 1969 essay
tilted “Two concepts of
liberty” owes its credit to ----
--
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38. The goods which, by their
character, cannot be shared
out among their
beneficiaries can be said to
be
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39. Fundamental benefits to the
citizens such as national
defence, good roads, health
programmes are refered to
as
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40. 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
_action.
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41. Sovereignty connotes
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42. In the impersonal state, the
status of a citizen was that
of a
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43. 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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44. 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”: ----
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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. 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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47. 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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48. This differentiates the
modern state from the
feudal or traditional society:
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49. A government of laws is by
definition a
_government.
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50. The right to participate in
political decision making
relates to -----
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