Indian Administrative law # test

1. “Administrative law is the law relating to the administration. It

determines the organization, powers and duties of the administrative
authorities”. This definition is provided by –

a. K. C. Davis

b. Garner

c. Ivor Jennings

d. Wade

(c)

2. Dicey developed his theory of ‘Rule of law’ in his classic work –

a. The Law and The Constitution

b. The Spirit of The Law

c. Constitutional Law

d. The Law and The Spirit

(a.)

3. Delegatus non potest delegare means-

a. A delegate can further delegate

b. a delegate cannot further delegate

c. delegation is bad in law

d. delegation is not provided to delegate

(b)

4. Which function cannot be delegated?

 a) Essential legislative functions
b) Exclusion
c) Suspension

d) Commencement

(a)

5. Which function can be delegated?

a) Essential legislative functions

b) Exemption

c) Inclusion

d) Both b & c

(c)

6. A delegated legislation may be held valid on the ground of-

a) Parent act is unconstitutional

b) Mala fide: bad faith

c) Where the delegated function is unreasonable and not limited

d) Where Parent Act delegates incidental legislative functions

(d)

7. When a subordinate legislation fails to comply with procedural

requirement prescribed by the parent act or by a general law, it is known
as-

a) Substantive ultra vires

b) Parent ultra vires

c) Procedural ultra vires

 d) None of the above

(c)

8. Which is not a principle of Rule Of Law according to Dicey-

a) Equality before law

b) Judge made constitution

c) Separate courts

d) Supremacy of law

(c)

9. The principle of Natural Justice is –

a) Audi alteram partem

b) Speaking Order

c) Nemo debet esse judex in propria causa

d) All of the above

(d)

10.In State of W.B. v. Shivananda Pathak, Apex court described a new form of
bias-

a) Pecuniary Bias

b)Personal Bias

c) Official Bias

d) Judicial Obstinacy

(d)
11.Under Indian Constitution, Art.______ authorized to constitute
Administrative Tribunals

a) Art.299

b)Art.300

c) Art.323-A
d) None of the above

(d)

12.The latin phrase ____________means ‘have the body’-

a) Mandamus
b) Habeas corpus
c) Prohibition

d) Certiorari

(b)

13.‘Quo Warranto’ literally means ________

a) To issue warrant
b) What is your authority
c) Both a and b

d) None of the above

(c)

14.Article _________ of the constitution confers on every High Court, the

power of superintendence over all the subordinate courts and inferior Tribunals
in the State.
a) 32

b) 226

c) 299

d) 227

(d)
15.The institution of Ombudsman originated in _________in 1809.

a) India

b) New Zealand

c) Finland
d) Sweden

(d)

16.Article 299 lays down condition which must be fulfilled in contracts made
by or with the union or a state –
a) Expressed to be made by the President or the Governor
b) Execute by a person authorized by the President or the Governor

c) Expressed in the name of President or the Governor

d) All of the above

(a)

17.The doctrine of Vicarious Liability is based on following maxim-

a) Audi alteram partem

b) Respondeat superior
c) Qui facit per alium facit per se

d) Both b and c

(c)

18.Which of the following sentence is correct-

a) A public corporation can enter into contract but cannot sue or be sued
for a breach thereof.

b) A public corporation can enter into contract and can sue and be sued for
a breach thereof.
 c) A public corporation is not a government department, the provisions of
Article 299 of the constitution of India do not apply to it

d) Both b and c are correct

(b)

19.A.V.Dicey criticized the French legal system of _______

a) Drone

b) Drone Administration

c) Droit Administratif

d) None of the above

(c)

20.Following is the defect of Doctrine Of Separation Of Power-

a)  Checks and balances between organs

b)  Judiciary must be independent from other two organs

c)  Prevent an abuse of enormous powers of the executive

d)  It is not easy to draw a demarcating line between one power and
another with mathematical precision.

(d)

Q. Which one of the following reflects the most appropriate relationship

between law and liberty ? 
1) If there are more laws, there is less liberty 
2) If there are no laws, there is no liberty 
3) If there is liberty, laws have to be made by the people 
4) If laws are changed too often, liberty is in danger

ANS: 2 

Q. Which of the following are regarded as the main features of the 'Rule of
Law' ?
1. Limitation of powers 2. Equality before law
3. People's responsibility to the Government 4. Liberty and civil rights.
Select the correct answer using the code given below : 
1) 1 and 3 only 
2) 2 and 4 only 
3) 1, 2 and 4 only 
4) 1, 2, 3 and 4

ANS: 2

Q. Rule of law prevails in - 

1) Dictatorship 
2) Aristocracy 
3) Democracy 
4) Oligarchy

ANS: 3

Q. Which one of the following has enhanced its power most from the system of
delegated legislation? 
1) The Legislature 
2) The Legislative Committees 
3) Bureaucracy 
4) The Council of Ministers

ANS: 3

Q. According to Marx, the state came into being to- 

1) Make life better 
2) Protect life and liberty 
3) End exploitation of the poor 
4) Legalize exploitation of the poor by the state

ANS: 4 

Q. Who said that, "State is an organ of class rule, an organ for the oppression
of one class by another ..."? 
1) Marx 
2) Lenin 
3) Gramsci 
4) Mao

ANS: 1

Q. Which institution in a federal system is called 'Balancing Wheel of the

Constitution'? 
1) Legislature 
2) Executive 
3) Judiciary 
4) Press

ANS: 3

Q. The central point of social contract theory is that the state is- 
1) A man made institution 
2) Sovereign 
3) Democratic 
4) Absolute

ANS: 1 

Q. The emphasis of Indian federation is on- 

1) Division of powers 
2) Strength of states 
3) Compromise with nationalities 
4) Unity of the nation

ANS: 4 

Q. Who among the following Marxist thinkers has been described as 'a genius
theoretician'? 
1) Lenin 
2) Gramsci 
3) Mao 
4) Kautasky
ANS: 2 

Q. The thinkers of which country have common tendency to entrust

sovereignty to an organ of the government. 
1) England 
2) France 
3) Germany 
4) Switzerland

ANS: 1 

Q. Who among the following made the greatest contribution to the application
of Marxism? 
1) Engels 
2) Lenin 
3) Stalin 
4) Habermas

ANS: 2 

Q. Who gave the view that A constitutional state 'is one in which the powers of
government, the rights of the governed and the relations between the two are
adjusted'? 
1) K. C. Wheare 
2) C. F. Strong 
3) Carl J. Friedrich 
4) James Bryce

ANS: 2 

Q. With the help of the following code give the proper sequence of different
stages in Locke's social contract-
i) Civil society 
ii)Government 
iii) State of nature 
iv) Social contract 
1) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) 
2) (ii), (iii), (i), (iv) 
3) (iii), (iv), (i), (ii) 
4) (iv), (i), (iii), (ii)

ANS: 3 

Q. Who has criticized Bureaucracy for creating 'red tapism'? 

1) E. N. Gladden 
2) W. B. Munro 
3) Ramsay Muir 
4) Charles E. Merriam

ANS: 3 

Q. 'If sovereignty is not absolute, no state will exist'. Who said this? 
1) Locke 
2) Laski 
3) Austin 
4) None of the above

Q. According to Marx 'the Dictatorship of the proletariat' signifies? 

1) A transitional state  
2) An ideal state 
3) A liberal state 
4) An autocratic state

ANS: 1

Q. Those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know
what religion means' who made the above statement? 
1) Gandhi  
2) Hobbes  
3) Green  
4) Mill

ANS: 1 
Q. "The social contract theory has been criticized as bad history ,bad logic
and bad ethics.." who said it? 
1) Henny Maine 
2) H.J.Laski 
3) F.Wilson  
4) Ernest Broker

ANS: 1 

Q. Which one of the following is not a natural right, according to Locke? 

1) Life  
2) Liberty 
3) Equality 
4) Property

ANS: 3 

Q. Which of the following countries has the beginning of Bureaucracy in the

'spoil system'? 
1) U.K 
2) U.S.A 
3) India 
4) France

ANS: 2 

Q. 'The reason why men enter into civil society is the preservation of their
property'.who said this? 
1) Hobbes  
2) Locke  
3) Rousseau  
4) Mill

ANS: 2 

Q. Locke laid the philosophical foundation of the theory of- 

1) Democracy 
2) Republicanism 
3) Constitutional monarchy 
4) Welfare state

ANS: 1 

Q. A dispute relating to the election of the Vice-President in India is decided

by the  
1) President  
2) Election Commission 
3) Supreme Court 
4) Parliament

ANS: 3 

Q. A socialist state lays emphasis on  

1) Political liberty  
2) Economic security 
3) Right to private property 
4) Independence of judiciary

ANS: 2 

Q. In the theory of the origin of the state political consciousness is a factor in

the  
1) Divine Origin Theory  
2) Force Theory  
3) Social Contract Theory  
4) Evolutionary Theory

ANS: 4 

Q. The concept of Natural Right is associated with the name of  

1) Plato 
2) Machiavelli 
3) Marx 
4) Locke
ANS: 4

Q. 'West Minister Model' stands for a particular type of - 

1) State 
2) Constitution 
3) Government 
4) Administration

ANS: 3

Q. State socialism believes in -- 

1) Stateless Society 
2) Democracy 
3) Revolution 
4) A state without law

ANS: 2

Q. Which of the following powers rests exclusively with the Council of State in
India 
1) To initiate impeachment against the President 
2) To recommend creation of New All India Services 
3) To appoint the Attorney General 
4) To alter Boundaries of the State

ANS: 2 

Q. Which of the following is not a constitutional organ? 

1) Election Commission 
2) Finance Commission 
3) Inter State Council 
4) Planning Commission

ANS: 4 

Q. The constitutional validity of a state-law in India may be challenged -  

1) Only in the State High Court 
2) Only in the Supreme Court 
3) In the High Court and the Supreme Court both 
4) Only in a tribunal

ANS: 3 

Q. The thinkers who believe that 'state is an association of associations' are

called- 
1) Socialists 
2) Federalists 
3) Anarchists 
4) Pluralists

ANS: 4