WAEC - Government (2006)

• 1

  An essential feature of a State is

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  (C)

  an organized system of laws
• 2

  The modern ideal of democracy includes all the following except

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  (A)

  unlimited freedom
• 3

  The political system which allows equal access to the means of production, distribution, and exchange is called

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  (C)

  Socialism
• 4

  The two components of sovereignty are

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  (C)

  legal and political indepence
• 5

  The modern concept of the rule of law was introduced by

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  (B)

  A.V. Dicey
• 6

  Which of the following principles negates the concept of the Rule of Law?

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  (D)

  Exercise of absolute power by the President
• 7

  All the following are sources of constitution except

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  (B)

  devolution of power
• 8

  The concept of decentralization includes all the following elements except

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  (B)

  delimitation
• 9

  The concept of decentralization includes all the following elements except

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  (B)

  delimitation
• 10

  A constitution said to be flexible when its provisions are

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  (D)

  easy to amend
• 11

  The power to pardon any citizen charged with any criminal offence lies with the

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  (B)

  Executive
• 12

  Police perform all the following functions except

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  (A)

  public execution of law breakers
• 13

  The number of chambers in a bicameral legislature is

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  (C)

  two
• 14

  In the legislature , a filibuster is one who

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  (D)

  prevents the passage of bill by making long speeches
• 15

  The verdicts of judges which are binding on lower courts are called judicial

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  (B)

  precedents
• 16

  The Judiciary organ of government is the body which

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  (B)

  interprets the laws
• 17

  The system of government in which authority is shared between the center and the component units is called

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  (C)

  federal system of goverment
• 18

  A constitutional created account into which all public revenue is paid is called

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  (D)

  Consolidated Fund
• 19

  In a cabinet system of government, the minister are collectively responsible to the

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  (B)

  parliament
• 20

  Official opposition is a feature of

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  (A)

  Parliamentary system
• 21

  Which of the following is not a duty of a citizen?

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  (D)

  Giving alms to the poor
• 22

  Free and Fair election is necessary for democracy to thrive because it

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  (B)

  helps the people to exercise their popular sovereignty
• 23

  A system in which a candidate with a highest number of votes is declared winner in an election is called

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  (A)

  first-pass-the -post
• 24

  Pressure group are also known as

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  (C)

  interest groups
• 25

  Public opinion is the view held by the

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  (C)

  majority
• 26

  A manifesto refers to

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  (D)

  proposed programme of a party
• 27

  The functions of political parties include the following except

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  (B)

  influencing policies of the government
• 28

  Anonymity of civil servants means that they

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  (D)

  do not take praise or blame for their performance
• 29

  One of the objectives of public corporations is to

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  (B)

  narrow the gap beteen the rich and the poor
• 30

  Public corporations are financed

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  (A)

  by tax paryers
• 31

  Which of the following is an advantages of local governments in West Africa?Acting as

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  (C)

  traning grounds for political leaders
• 32

  Some pre-colonial West African governments were democratic because of the existence of

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  (D)

  checks and balance
• 33

  In the pre-colonial West Africa, the Kingdom,Wolof and the Hausa were examples of a

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  (D)

  nation
• 34

  Which of the following countries popularized the use of the Indirect Rule by the British?

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  (A)

  Nigeria
• 35

  Indirect rule was successfully in some of the part of West Africa because

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  (B)

  it sulted the existing traditional political structure
• 36

  The National Congress of British West Africa (NCBWA) was founded in 1919 by

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  (D)

  J.E. Caseley Hayford
• 37

  Elective principle was introduced in the British colonies after

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  (C)

  a series of agitations by the educated elite
• 38

  An important innovation of the constitutions of British West African colonies in the 1920s was the

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  (A)

  intorduction of elective principle
• 39

  Notational Congress of British West Africa (NCBWA)failed to achieve its aims initially because

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  (A)

  the chiefs and Governors oppsed those aims
• 40

  A coup détat is regarded as

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  (D)

  an unconstitututional way of changing the government