State Questions and Answers AP Inter 1st Year Civics Chapter 2

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AP Inter 1st Year Civics 2nd Lesson State Questions and Answers

Very Short Answer Questions

Question 1.
Write any one definition of the state.
Answer:

• State is a politically organized people of a definite territory” – Bluntschli
• “State is a people organized for law within a definite territory” – Woodrow Wilson

Question 2.
Mention the other elements of the state.
Answer:
The four other elements of the State are:

1. International Recognition,
2. Permanence.
3. General Obedience
4. Popular Will

Question 3.
What are the primary theories of the origin of the state?
Answer:
Primary theories of the origin of the state:

1. The Divine Origin Theory
2. The Force Theory
3. The Patriarchal Theory
4. The Matriarchal Theory

Question 4.
What do you know about ‘association’?
Answer:
An association is defined as “a group of people united for a specific purpose or a limited number of purposes”. Associations are meant for realising the interests of their members only.

They may be temporary or permanent. They lack sovereignty.

Question 5.
What is international recognition?
Answer:
International recognition:

• Every state needs to be recognised by the other states.
• International recognition implies recognition of the sovereign status of a state by other states.
• Such recognition is rendered by some international organizations like United Nations Organization.
• The UNO membership is a means for recognizing state’s sovereignty.

Question 6.
Mention two thinkers who endorsed social contract theory.
Answer:
Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau endorsed Social Contract Theory.

Short Answer Questions

Question 1.
Explain any two essential elements of the State.
Answer:
State is considered as the most important, powerful, and sovereign institution.
Essential elements of the State:

1. Population
2. Territory
3. Government
4. Sovereignty

1. Population: State is an organized human association. No state can exist and survive without people. Because there must be some one to rule and others to be ruled.

For Plato, the ideal population of a state is 5040 people and for Rousseau it is 10,000.

In modern times the maximum and minimum size of population has not been prescribed. Modern States greatly vary in their size of population. States like the United States, Russia and Canada are under populated. China and India are over populated.

2. Territory: Territory denotes geographical area of the State. It is owned and controlled by a government which exercises sovereign power.

State requires a fixed territory, with clear demarcated boundaries for exercising undisputed authority. Territory is its “material basis”.

Territory of a State comprises:

• Land, mountains, rivers and lakes within its frontiers;
• Territorial waters extending upto 12 nautical miles into the sea from the coast
• Terrestrial space lying above its land.

Question 2.
Write any four differences between state and society.
Answer:
Differences between State and Society:

Question 3.
Write any four differences between state and government.
Answer:
Differences between State and Government:

 
Long Answer Questions

Question 1.
Define State and explain its essential elements.
Answer:
State is considered as the most important, powerful, and sovereign institution.

Definition of the State
“State is a politically organized people of a definite territory” – Bluntschli

Essential Elements of the State:

1. Population
2. Territory
3. Government
4. Sovereignty

1. Population: State is an organized human association. No state can exist and survive without people. Because there must be some one to rule and others to be ruled.

For Plato, the ideal population of a state is 5040 people and for Rousseau it is 10,000.

In modern times the maximum and minimum size of population has not been prescribed. Modern States greatly vary in their size of population. States like the United States, Russia and Canada are under populated. China and India are over populated.

2. Territory: Territory denotes geographical area of the State. It is owned and controlled by a government which exercises sovereign power.

State requires a fixed territory, with clear demarcated boundaries for exercising undisputed authority. Territory is its “material basis”.
Territory of a State comprises:

• Land, mountains, rivers and lakes within its frontiers;
• Territorial waters extending upto 12 nautical miles into the sea from the coast
• Terrestrial space lying above its land.

3. Government: State must possess an organized government. Government is the machinery through which the State exercises its supreme power. It constitutes the brain and heart of the State. Government is indeed an indispensable machinery by means of which the State maintains its existence, carries on its functions and realizes its policies and objectives. Without government, there can be no civilized body like State.

Government is the executive branch of the State. It is essential for administering political, economic, social and cultural affairs. The State performs its various functions through the Government.
Government comprises three organs:

• Legislature
• Executive and
• Judiciary

4. Sovereignty: Sovereignty is the fourth essential element of the State. It is this element that distinguish the state from other association. Sovereignty denotes the supreme and final coercive authority beyond which no further coercive power exists. It is the supreme power or ultimate authority of the State. It enables the Government to rule and make laws within the State.

Sovereignty has two aspects: internal and external.

Question 2.
Write any eight differences between state and association.
Answer:
Differences between State and Association are given in the following table:

Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1.
What, according to Willoughby, is an important element of the state?
1. Government
2. Sovereignty
3. Popular Will
4. Permanence
Answer:
3. Popular Will

Question 2.
Identify the essential element of the state.
1. International recognition
2. Government
3. Permanence
4. Popular Will
Answer:
2. Government

Question 3.
Identify the other element of the state.
1. Population
2. Territory
3. Sovereignty
4. General Obedience
Answer:
4. General Obedience

Question 4.
“The Prince” book was written by
1. Machiavelli
2. Maclver
3. Aristotle
4. Bluntschli
Answer:
1. Machiavelli

Question 5.
In the following elements which is called as the “brain and heart of the state”?
1. Government
2. Population
3. Sovereignty
4. Territory
Answer:
1. Government

Fill in the Blanks

Question 1.
The origin of the modern states was in ___________.
Answer:
Ancient Greece and Medieval Europe

Question 2.
According to Plato, the size of the population of the ‘polis’ that he conceived should not comprise more than ___________ people.
Answer:
5040

Question 3.
For every coastal state, its territorial waters extend into the sea up to a distance of ___________ nautical miles from the coastal baseline.
Answer:
12

One Word Answers

Question 1.
In the modern period, which theory led to the origin of modern nation-state system?
Answer:
Theory of National Self-Determination.

Question 2.
Who used the word ‘La Stato’ for the first time in the sense of the ‘state’?
Answer:
Machiavelli.

Question 3.
At the end of the sixteenth century, who referred to the state as a ‘republic’?
Answer:
Jean Bodin.

Question 4.
Which element of the state distinguishes the state from other associations?
Answer:
Sovereignty

Question 5.
Who regarded that ‘blood relationship (kinship) created society and society in turn led to the state’?
Answer:
Maclver

Question 6.
Who believed that good citizens make a good state?
Answer:
Aristotle

Question 7.
Who considered that ‘the state has a class structure’?
Answer:
Socialists