Unit 7: Optional theme — Political philosophy
Topic 7.1: The state Questions
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Fill the gap: Ibn Khaldun argued that what really holds a state together is ______ — the shared 'we-feeling' or group solidarity of a people.
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'Theocracy' is a form of government where:
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Ibn Khaldun's idea of asabiyya is:
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The anarchist challenge to the state is best understood as the claim that:
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The 'state of nature' is a thought experiment that imagines:
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Rousseau's 'general will' is:
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A 'nation' is best described as:
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Fill the gap: openly and peacefully breaking an unjust law and accepting the penalty, to change that one law, is called ______ disobedience.
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Fill the gap: a government seized in a coup may hold all the power, but it can still lack ______ — the accepted RIGHT to rule.
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Legitimacy differs from a government's power because legitimacy is:
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A key feature that distinguishes civil disobedience from ordinary law-breaking is that it is:
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Locke differs from Hobbes because Locke's state:
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The key difference between the 'state' and the 'government' is that:
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'Civil society' refers to:
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Authority differs from raw power because authority is:
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True or false? The state and the government are two names for the same thing.
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Sovereignty means:
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For Hobbes, people would agree to a strong state in order to:
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True or false? The social contract means people once literally sat down and signed a contract to create the state.
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A government where the many choose their rulers, usually by voting, is a:
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