A. Right to vote
B. Right to have political office
C. Right to contest elections
D. Right to criticise government
E. Right to live in family
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Which one of the following is not true about equality?
A. It means equal right in political system
B. It means rule of law
C. It means economic disparity
D. It means equal right to hold political office
Who said that political equality can never be real unless it is accompanied by virtual economic equality:
A. Laski
B. D.G.H.Cole
C. Lord Action
D. De Tocqueville
Where is written that men are born equal and always continue to be free and equal in respect of their rights?
A. Charter of League Nations
B. Charter of U.N.O.
C. Slogan of Glorious Revolution
D. Slogan of French Revolution
E. Declaration of Rights of Man (1789)
The two words ‘demos’ and ‘cratia’ from which democracy draws its origin belong to: _________?
A. Latin language
B. Greek language
C. French language
D. Spanish language
Which one of the following criticisms holds good for Western democracy?
A. It promotes apathy towards Politics
B. It is characterised by vast socioeconomic inequalities
C. It leads to monopoly over the means of communications
D. All the above
Lord Bryce has written “That form of government in which the ruling power of a state is legally vested, not in any particular class, but in the members of the community as a whole”. Which form of government he is referring to _________?
A. Democracy
B. Parliamentary government
C. Federal government
D. Unitary government
Which one of the followings has been wrongly listed as an essential attribute of democracy?
A. Freedom of speech
B. Freedom of religion
C. Equality before law
D. Equality of property
Lord Bryce defines democracy as: ________________________?
A. “A form of government in which the will of majority of qualified rules.”
B. “The progress of all, through all under the leadership of the best and the wisest.”
C. “Government by the freely chosen representatives of the people and not by the people themselves.”
D. “Nothing more than an experiment in government.”
Which one of the followings has been wrongly listed as a critic of democracy?
A. Locke
B. Lecky
C. Maine
D. Leveleye