Jamb Government Questions
Question 21:
Delegated legislation
- A Means sharing responibility between central and local goverment on a fifty fifty basis
- B Decentralizes responsibility for law making subject to agreed controls from the centre
- C Has advantages and disadvantages
- D Once permitted is almost impossible to control
- E Decentralizes problems without providing suitable solutions
Question 22:
The main role of pressure groups is to
- A Influenec the Legislature and the Executive to make decisions favourable to them
- B Inject emotional and selfish issues into national debates
- C Influence the general public
- D Use all means including bribery to achieve their objectives
- E Assist selected multinational corporations in fulfilling their objectives
Question 23:
Within a democracy,, Citizens
- A Can use all and any means to overthrow an offensive government
- B Have the right and duty to be involved in the political process
- C Have the duty to eliminate their political opponents
- D Are advised to be eternally vigilant
- E Have the positve right to physically prevent military coups from taking place
Question 24:
The concept of Parliamentary Government in Britain is
- A Turning into Prime M inisterial and Whitehall government in practice
- B Now a complete myth
- C In fact identical with the Presidential system in the USA
- D Supported by a tiny segment of the population
- E Rejected by the aristocracy of that country
Question 25:
The basic element of the United State Constitution is that
- A It presupposes and relies upon the existence of a highly educated and very articulate electorated
- B Presidents like Richard Nixon cannot get away with gross abuse of power
- C It guarantees the enjoyment of equal rights and protection by every citizen
- D Murderers who are found guilty by law courts are executed on electric chairs
- E It embodies the concept of separation of powers