Question 1
An essential feature of a State is
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WAEC Government 2006 Past Questions
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Question 1
(a) Define Government as an academic field of study.
(b) Describe any three branches of Government
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Question 2
The modern ideal of democracy includes all the following except
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Question 2
(a) Identify three types of delegated legislation
(b) Give three reasons for the control of delegated legislation.
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Question 3
The political system which allows equal access to the means of production, distribution, and exchange is called
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Question 3
(a) Outline any three features of a Written Constitution.
(b) Highlight any three reasons for the adoption of a Unitary Constitution.
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Question 4
The two components of sovereignty are
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Question 4
(a) Give three reasons for holding elections in a state.
(b) Identify three factors that can disqualify a person from voting in a democracy.
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Question 5
The modern concept of the rule of law was introduced by
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Question 5
Highlight any six-methods used by the pre-colonial chiefs in your country to control their subjects.
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Question 6
Which of the following principles negates the concept of the Rule of Law?
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Question 6
(a) Outline four reasons for the adoption of the Indirect Rule System.
(b) Enumerate two achievements of the Indirect Rule System.
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Question 7
All the following are sources of constitution except
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Question 7
(a) Highlight two methods used by nationalist leaders in their opposition to British Rule in West Africa.
(b) Outline four external factors that led to increased nationalist demands after the Second World War in West Africa.
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Question 8
The concept of decentralization includes all the following elements except
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Question 8
(a) State two objectives of the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC).
(b) Describe four achievements of the NCNC.
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Question 9
The concept of decentralization includes all the following elements except
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Question 9
(a) Highlight four features of the Nigerian Federalism.
(b) State two problems confronting Nigerian Federalism.
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Question 10
A constitution said to be flexible when its provisions are
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Question 10
(a) What is foreign policy?
(b) Outline three reasons for adoption of Africa as the centre-piece of Nigeria's foreign policy.
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Question 11
The power to pardon any citizen charged with any criminal offence lies with the
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Question 11
(a) List four Organs of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
(b) Outline four obstacles that hinder the implementation of the aims and objectives of the ECOWAS.
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Question 12
Police perform all the following functions except
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Question 13
The number of chambers in a bicameral legislature is
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Question 14
In the legislature , a filibuster is one who
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Question 15
The verdicts of judges which are binding on lower courts are called judicial
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Question 16
The Judiciary organ of government is the body which
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Question 17
The system of government in which authority is shared between the center and the component units is called
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Question 18
A constitutional created account into which all public revenue is paid is called
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Question 19
In a cabinet system of government, the minister are collectively responsible to the
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Question 20
Official opposition is a feature of
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Question 21
Which of the following is not a duty of a citizen?
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Question 22
Free and Fair election is necessary for democracy to thrive because it
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Question 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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Question 24
Pressure group are also known as
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Question 25
Public opinion is the view held by the
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Question 26
A manifesto refers to
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Question 27
The functions of political parties include the following except
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Question 28
Anonymity of civil servants means that they
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Question 29
One of the objectives of public corporations is to
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Question 30
Public corporations are financed
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Question 31
Which of the following is an advantages of local governments in West Africa?Acting as
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Question 32
Some pre-colonial West African governments were democratic because of the existence of
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Question 33
In the pre-colonial West Africa, the Kingdom,Wolof and the Hausa were examples of a
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Question 34
Which of the following countries popularized the use of the Indirect Rule by the British?
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Question 35
Indirect rule was successfully in some of the part of West Africa because
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Question 36
The National Congress of British West Africa (NCBWA) was founded in 1919 by
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Question 37
Elective principle was introduced in the British colonies after
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Question 38
An important innovation of the constitutions of British West African colonies in the 1920s was the
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Question 39
Notational Congress of British West Africa (NCBWA)failed to achieve its aims initially because
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