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Government Assignment for SS 3
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  • 1. 1. Government refers to all the following, except _____
A) The act of civil disobedience
B) The activities of decision makers
C) An institution of the state
D) The process of ruling a political community
  • 2. 2. Unwritten Constitution means that the Constitution is ______
A) Based only on conventions
B) Not approved
C) Not contained in any single book
D) Not written down
  • 3. 3. The delegation of Administrative powers to the local units with the central supervision and control is called _____
A) Centralization
B) Federalism
C) Decentralization
D) Devolution
  • 4. 4. A flexible constitution can only be amended by _____
A) 3/4 majority vote in the legislature
B) Referendum
C) Plebiscite
D) Simple majority vote in the legislature
  • 5. 5. Which of the following countries has an Unwritten Constitution?
A) France
B) United State of America
C) Great Britain
D) Federal Republic of Germany
  • 6. 6. The United Nations Organization (UNO) has its headquarters in ______
A) France
B) USSR
C) USA
D) Britain
  • 7. 7. The State is different from the government because
A) The State unlike the government is permanent
B) Members of the government are elected
C) The State can exercise absolute power
D) The State is created by God
  • 8. 8. A state is a special form of human association because it ________
A) Is the richest association in society
B) Has a legitimate monopoly of life and death penalties over its citizens
C) Can punish law breakers
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) Influence
B) Legitimacy
C) Authority
D) Sovereignty
  • 10. 10. The voluntary activities of members of a society in the selection of rulers is known as _______
A) Political decision
B) Political socialization
C) Political culture
D) Political participation
  • 11. 11. The primary objective of all political parties is to _______
A) Eradicate corruption in public life
B) Control the government
C) Campaign for vote
D) Educate the electorate
  • 12. 12. Flexible constitution is advantageous because it _____
A) Guarantees political stability
B) Can cope with emergency periods
C) Prevents dictatorship
D) Allows for continuity
  • 13. 13. The French policy of Assimilation
A) Was aimed at converting Africans to Frenchmen
B) To enable the French to stay in Africa
C) Was a device to transfer technology to Africa
D) Was a device to transfer technology to Africa
  • 14. 14. The controversy over the 1979 Presidential elections result was ______
A) Because one of the candidates was declared elected when the result for one of the states had not been received
B) Because educated Nigerians did not approve who received the number of votes
C) Due to the interpretation of 1/4 of the vote cast in 2/3 of all states in the Federation
D) Over the dispute on the conduct of the election
  • 15. 15. All the following were frontline fighters for Nigeria's Independence except ______
A) Aminu Kano
B) Lateef Jakande
C) Obafemi Awolowo
D) Herbert Macaulay
  • 16. 16. The first political party in Nigeria was ______
A) Action Group
B) Nigeria National Democratic Party (NNDP)
C) People's Democratic Party (PDP)
D) National Council of Nigeria Citizens
  • 17. 17. To which of these countries did Nigeria send peace keeping force?
A) Angola
B) Chad
C) Ghana
D) South Africa
  • 18. 18. The laws which the state legislators make normally pass through_____
A) The judiciary
B) Some committees in the civil service
C) The Executive
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) Independence
C) Parliamentary government
D) Self 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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