Important Questions on Equality : Expected Questions : Part-2

35. The philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries emphasised - 

Ans : Social and economic equality only 

36. In the twentieth century greater emphasis was laid on - 

Ans : Social ans economic equality 

37. Civil or legal equality is a feature of - 

Ans : All democratic governments 

38. Equality before law falls in the category of - 

Ans : Civil equality 

39. The grant of franchise to women on equal terms with men is assertion to women on Equal terms with of the principle - 

Ans : Political equality 

40. Which one of the following statements is correct? 

Ans : Legal equality is imperfect until there is economic equality 

41. Social equality means - 

Ans : No person should be made to suffer a position of relative inferiority in relation to other men due to difference in caste, race, religion, etc. 

42. Which one of the following thinkers considered liberty and equality as complementary? 

Ans : Maciver 

43. Economic equality means that - 

Ans : Every citizen is able to satisfy his primary needs before aspiring for luxuries 

44. Which one of the following is the most appropriate meaning of the concept of "protective discrimination". 

Ans : Discrimination in favour of the underprivileged to raise them 

45. Equality in true and positive sense means - 

Ans : Everyone should get equal opportunity for the development of his personality and all should be equal before law 

46. Which one of the following two types of equality was emphasized by Barker? 

Ans : Legal and social 

47. There are two pillars of democracy viz. liberty and - 

Ans : Equality 

48. Who of the following thinkers maintain that liberty and equality are antagonistic to each other? 

Ans : Lord Action and De Tocqueville 

49. Who said, "Political equality without economic equality is a myth"? 

Ans : Cole 

50. Who said, " There can we no identity of treatment and identity of reward so long as men differ in their needs and capacities"? 

Ans : Laski 

51. Who of the following is associated with the concept of positive equality? 

Ans : Laski 

52. The concept of sovereign is associated with - 

Ans : National equality 

53. Which one of the following is not true about equality? 

Ans : It means equal right to hold political office 

54. Which one of the following is not covered under political equality? 

Ans : Right to live in family 

55. Which of the following is covered under National equality? 

Ans : Right to have equal status  international forums 

56. Which one of the following kinds of equality is not compatible with the liberal notion of equality? 

Ans : Economic equality

57. Who of the following believed in the concept of negative equality? 

Ans : Lord Action 

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