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Government Assignment for SS 3
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  • 1. 1. Government refers to all the following, except _____
A) The process of ruling a political community
B) An institution of the state
C) The act of civil disobedience
D) The activities of decision makers
  • 2. 2. Unwritten Constitution means that the Constitution is ______
A) Not approved
B) Based only on conventions
C) Not written down
D) Not contained in any single book
  • 3. 3. The delegation of Administrative powers to the local units with the central supervision and control is called _____
A) Federalism
B) Centralization
C) Devolution
D) Decentralization
  • 4. 4. A flexible constitution can only be amended by _____
A) Plebiscite
B) Simple majority vote in the legislature
C) Referendum
D) 3/4 majority vote in the legislature
  • 5. 5. Which of the following countries has an Unwritten Constitution?
A) United State of America
B) France
C) Federal Republic of Germany
D) Great Britain
  • 6. 6. The United Nations Organization (UNO) has its headquarters in ______
A) Britain
B) France
C) USSR
D) USA
  • 7. 7. The State is different from the government because
A) The State unlike the government is permanent
B) The State can exercise absolute power
C) The State is created by God
D) Members of the government are elected
  • 8. 8. A state is a special form of human association because it ________
A) Can punish law breakers
B) Is the richest association in society
C) Has a legitimate monopoly of life and death penalties over its citizens
D) Has a government
  • 9. 9. The physiological support a regime gets from its citizens if the believe the regime is right and out to be obeyed, is known as
A) Authority
B) Sovereignty
C) Legitimacy
D) Influence
  • 10. 10. The voluntary activities of members of a society in the selection of rulers is known as _______
A) Political decision
B) Political participation
C) Political socialization
D) Political culture
  • 11. 11. The primary objective of all political parties is to _______
A) Eradicate corruption in public life
B) Campaign for vote
C) Control the government
D) Educate the electorate
  • 12. 12. Flexible constitution is advantageous because it _____
A) Can cope with emergency periods
B) Prevents dictatorship
C) Allows for continuity
D) Guarantees political stability
  • 13. 13. The French policy of Assimilation
A) Was aimed at converting Africans to Frenchmen
B) Was a device to transfer technology to Africa
C) To enable the French to stay in Africa
D) Was a device to transfer technology to Africa
  • 14. 14. The controversy over the 1979 Presidential elections result was ______
A) Over the dispute on the conduct of the election
B) Because educated Nigerians did not approve who received the number of votes
C) Because one of the candidates was declared elected when the result for one of the states had not been received
D) Due to the interpretation of 1/4 of the vote cast in 2/3 of all states in the Federation
  • 15. 15. All the following were frontline fighters for Nigeria's Independence except ______
A) Lateef Jakande
B) Obafemi Awolowo
C) Aminu Kano
D) Herbert Macaulay
  • 16. 16. The first political party in Nigeria was ______
A) Nigeria National Democratic Party (NNDP)
B) Action Group
C) National Council of Nigeria Citizens
D) People's Democratic Party (PDP)
  • 17. 17. To which of these countries did Nigeria send peace keeping force?
A) Angola
B) Chad
C) South Africa
D) Ghana
  • 18. 18. The laws which the state legislators make normally pass through_____
A) Some committees in the civil service
B) The Executive
C) The judiciary
D) The process of deliberations
  • 19. 19. Voting started in Nigeria in 1923 because the Clifford Constitution of 1922 granted _______
A) An elective principle
B) Self government
C) Independence
D) Parliamentary government
  • 20. 20. A sovereign state is one
A) Whose government decisions are made Independence of foreign interference
B) In which sovereignty is invested in the military
C) Where its citizens can speak without fear or favour
D) Whose citizens are free to evade responsibility
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