2016 Government WAEC Objective Past Questions

Government refers to all the following except

All the following are experienced by a community without government except

As an academic field the study of government does not include

Which of the following systems of government is authoritarian in nature?

The system that allows the opposition to participate in governance is

Which of the following hinders the establishment of a representative government in a state?

Which of the following is not an attribute of a state?

In a democracy political sovereignty is vested in the

According to Charles Montesquieu, the theory of separation of powers is to prevent

Decentralization is a common feature of

By-laws are made through

Power is transformed into legal authority through

Conventions are mostly used by states that have

One advantage of a flexible constitution is that it

A constitution that requires complicated procedure for its amendment is

The official who enforces discipline among members of his party in parliament is the

When an action of the executive is declared ultra-vires, it is a control exercised by the

In a presidential system of government, the president can constitutionally be removed from the office through

Which of the following is an important feature of a Unitary Constitution?

One of the features of an absolute monarch is that the ruler

A notable feature of cabinet system of government is

All the following are the conditions for the adoption of federalism except

The privilege citizens enjoyed in a country irrespective of sex, tribe or creed is

The judicial order requiring a detained person to be brought before a judge is the writ of

A political party can contest and win a widely accepted election if it has

Political parties aim at all the following except

Which of the following is not a means through which political parties reach the populace?

An association whose ultimate aim is to influence government policies is known as

Membership of pressure groups is usually limited because they

Elections are conducted to

Suffrage is also known as

For an election to be fair and free Electoral Commission Must be

Which of the following categories of people can vote in periodic election

The anonymity of a civil servant means that he

Which of the following functions is performed by the civil service?

Public corporations are established to

A minister controls public corporation by

An institution of government that makes bye-laws is the

Local governments are created to

Some pre-colonial West African governments were democratic because of the existence of

One of the measures introduced by indirect rule was

Which of the following policies was replaced by the French policy of a association?

The appointment and deposition of chiefs by their people was a demand of the

The desire for constitutional development in British West African Colonies was as a result of the

The following are features of military regimes except

Military regimes in West Africa have often made use of civilians because

One criticism leveled against the pre-independence political parties in West Africa was that some of them

Foreign policy is the

The Commonwealth of Nations was originally made up of

Which of the following countries was not instrumental to the formation of the United Nations Organization (UNO)?