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NET Unit 4: Comparative Political Analysis Part I

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1. Arrange in chronological order, the following constitutions in order of their year of framing (NET November 2021 Shift II)

A. Constitution of Switzerland

B. Constitution of America

C. Constitution of India

D. Constitution of Canada

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

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2. Which one of the following components is NOT essential in the political culture? (NET November 2021 Shift II)

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3. Which among the following are elements of Liberalism? (NET December 2021 and June 2022 Shift II)

A. Individual should have the right to develop his own personality.

B. Man is a rational creature.

C. Society should not be plural.

D. It believes in constitutionalism.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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4. Which among the following is NOT a type of orientation in a political culture in Robert Dahl's view? (NET December 2021 and June 2022 Shift II)

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5. The concept of political culture involves three components of individual orientations: (NET December 2021 and June 2022 Shift II)

  1. Cognitive orientations
  2. Affective orientations and
  3. Evaluative orientation.

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6. Match the List-I with List-II (NET August 2024 Shift II)

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7. Match the List-I with List-II (NET August 2024 Shift II)

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8. Match the List-I with List-II (NET August 2024 Shift II)

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9. Identify the correct statements- (NET August 2024 Shift II)

A. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is an example of a cadre based party.

B. Otto Kirchheimer argues for a category of 'catch-all parties'.

C. O. Kirchheimer puts the US Republican and Democratic parties in the category of catch-all parties.

D. Anthony Downs portray politicians as power-seeking creatures who are willing' to adopt 'whatever' policies are likely to bring them electoral success.

E. Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of UK Declaration of freedom.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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10. Choose the correct statements regarding elite theory: (NET August 2024 Shift II)

A. Robert Dahl advocated the Concept of polyrchial democracy.

B. John Plamenatz argued that if the will of the people is a myth, then 'will of the minority" also belongs to the same category.

C. Gaetano Mosca advocated the idea of elite theory in his classical work 'The Political Parties'.

D. Robert Michels advocated the idea of 'Iron law of Oligarchy".

E. C Right Mills advocated his idea of elite power in his book 'The Managerial Revolution'.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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11. Consider the following statements regarding judicial system and choose the correct answer- (NET August 2024 Shift II)

A. Supreme Court of Canada has three judges from the province of Quebec to ensure ethnic and religious balance.

B. Some judges of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany are elected by the Bundestag and Bundesrat.

C. In United States, the judges are nominated by the House of Lords and ratified by the Senate.

D. US Constitution of 1787 did not explicitly provide for judicial review.

E. The power of judicial review originated in India in the leading case of Marbury Vs. Madison.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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12. Choose the correct statements regarding Comparative Politics. (NET August 2024 Shift II)

A. In traditional approach, emphasis is on value-laden study of politics.

B. Behavioural approach is one of the important traditional approach.

C. David Easton is one of the leading theorist of Behaviouralism.

D. David Easton's input-output analysis has three main variables in the form of demands, supports and feedbacks.

E. 'Political assasination is one of the important positive indices of political development.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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13. Gabriel Almond classified the Pressure group into different categories. Find the correct ones- (NET August 2024 Shift II)

A. Associational groups

B. Non-associational groups

C. Institutional groups

D. Anomic groups

E. Non-anomic groups

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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14. Which of the following statement is not correct about Constitutionalism? (NET August 2024 Shift I)

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15. Plato's Republic demonstrates that democratic form of Government is essentially: (NET December 2004)

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16. The 'due process of law is the characteristic of the judicial system of: (NET December 2004)

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17. Who among the following made a systematic study of pressure groups in the first decade of the twentieth century? (NET December 2004)

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18. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below: (NET December 2004)

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19. Who among the following believes that corruption is inseparable from modernization? (NET December 2004)

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20. According to Lucian Pye, the key elements of political development are: (NET December 2004)

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21. According to Almond and Powell, the capabilities of a political system are: (NET December 2004)

  1. Administrative
  2. Regulative
  3. Extractive
  4. Distributive

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22. Which one of the following is not a component of Easton's definition of a political system? (NET December 2004)

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23. Match List I (concept) with List II (thinker) and give the answer by using the codes given below: (NET December 2004)

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24. Behaviorism is an attack upon: (NET December 2004)

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25. The Pendleton Act 1883 was a major step toward reforms in civil service of: (NET December 2005)

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26. Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET December 2005)

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27. Arrange the following books in order in which they appeared. Use the code given below: (NET December 2005)

I. ‘The Politics of Developing Area'

II. ‘Modern Politics of Government’

III. 'The Political Process’

IV. ‘Aspect of Political Development’

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28. Arrange the following ideas/concepts in order in which they appeared. Use the code given below: (NET December 2005)

I. Feed-back loop

II. Rule of Law

III. Due Process of Law

IV. Democratic centralism

Code:

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29. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R): (NET December 2005)

Assertion (A): The American Senate is the strongest second chamber of the Legislature in the world

Reason (R): The American Senate has equal powers as the House of Representatives.

In the context of the two statements which one of the following is correct?

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30. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R): (NET December 2005)

Assertion (A): Democracy has not succeeded in most of the developing countries

Reason (R): participant political culture is lacking in developing countries

In the context of the two statements which one of the following is correct?

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31. Identify the concept associated with Political Communication: (NET December 2005)

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32. Arrange the following events/concepts in order in which they appeared. Use the code given below: (NET December 2005)

i. Glorious Revolution

ii. Proletariat Revolution

iii. Total Revolution

iv. Behavioural Revolution

Code:

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33. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R): (NET December 2005)

Assertion (A): Behaviouralism is value free:

Reason (R): Behaviouralism is intuitive:

In the context of the two statements which one of the following is correct?

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34. The universal actor in Kaplan's Systems approach is: (NET December 2006)

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35. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET December 2006)

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36. The most powerful legislature in the world is: (NET December 2006)

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37. Who among the following believed in the theory of circulation of elites? (NET December 2006)

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38. Who among the following defines modemization as "a multifaceted process involving changes in all areas of human thought and activity”? (NET December 2006)

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39. According to Almond, the input functions of a political system are: (NET December 2006)

(i) Interest-articulation

(ii) Interest-aggregation

(iii) Rule-making

(iv) Rule-application

Which of these are correct?

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40. The general systems theory in social sciences was first developed in: (NET December 2006)

(i) Psychology

(ii) Anthropology

(iii) Political Science

(iv) Sociology

What is the correct chronological sequence of the above? Select the correct answer from the codes given below:

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41. Match List - II with List - II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET December 2007)

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42. Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET December 2007)

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43. Which one of the following pairs: correctly matched? (NET December 2007)

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44. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched (NET December 2007)

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45. Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET December 2007)

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46. Identify the correct chronological order in which the following books were published: (NET December 2007)

(i) Political Man

(ii) The Power Elite

(iii) Theory and Practice of Modern Governments

(iv) Comparative Politics: A Developmental Approach

Codes:

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47. Identify the correct chronological order in which the following approaches emerged: (NET December 2007)

(i) Philosophical Approach

(ii) Behavioural Approach

(iii) Marxist Approach

(iv) Systems Approach

Codes:

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48. Assertion (A): The underdeveloped countries suffer from the profound inequalities in contemporary world.

Reason (R): International system should address issues of security, freedom and progress.

(NET December 2007)

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49. Assertion (A): States and the State are basic and permanent features of the modern Political Life.

Reason (R): The state system and Modernity are not closely related historically.

(NET December 2007)

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50. Assertion (A): There is no society today which claim a single uniform political culture.

Reason (R): Patterns of cultural change from country to country.

(NET December 2007)

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51. Which one of the following statements is correct? (NET December 2007)

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52. Whose name is associated with the concept 'Relative Autonomy of State’? (NET December 2007)

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53. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below: (NET December 2008)

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54. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R): (NET December 2008)

Assertion (A): The U.S. Supreme Court is more powerfull than the Supreme Court of India in the exercise of power of judicial review.

Reason (R): The U.S. Supreme Court follows the principle of 'due process of law.

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55. Given below are the two statements one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R): (NET December 2008)

Assertion (A): Political socialisation is the process by which political cultures are maintained and changed.

Reason (R): Family, School, Peer groups, experiences during employment, mass media and direct contact with political system are the main agents of the process of socialisation

Code:

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56. Which one of the following books was authored by David Easton? (NET December 2008)

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57. Who among the following talks of pseudo pressure (NET December 2008)

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58. Who among the following described elites as "speculators" and "rentiers"? (NET December 2008)

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59. Who among the following liberated political development from socio-economic modernisation? (NET December 2008)

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60. Identify the order in which the following occurred: (NET December 2008)

(i) The Russian Revolution

(ii) The American Revolution

(iii) The French Revolution

(iv) The Glorious Revolution

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61. Assertion (A): Post behavioralism consisted of normative element.

Reason (R): Easton conceded relevance of values in political analysis.

Which one of the following is correct? (NET December 2008)

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62. Put the following concepts in sequence in which they were used by Karl Deutsch in his conceptual frame work. Use the code given below: (NET June 2008)

(i) Lead

(ii) Load

(iii) Lag

(iv) Gain

Code:

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63. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below. (NET June 2008)

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64. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. (NET June 2008)

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65. Given below are two statements one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). (NET June 2008)

Assertion (A): A political system receives a more or less continuous support from society if the process of political socialization is homogeneous.

Reason (R): The individuals cooperate with each other and there is an atmosphere of trust in the political culture.

Select the correct answer from the codes given below.

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66. Given below are two statements one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R): (NET June 2008)

Assertion (A): Elite theory is based on the idea that every society consists of two broad categories.

(i) the selected few and the vast masses of people.

Reason (R): The elite theory first started as a critique of democracy and Socialism.

Select the correct answer from the codes given below.

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67. The residuary powers rest with the states in the federal system of: (NET June 2008)

(i) USA

(ii) India

(iii) Switzerland

(iv) Canada

Code:

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68. According to David Easton, which of the following are the regulatory mechanisms in a political system? (NET June 2008)

(A) Socio-cultural norms

(B) Communication channels

(C) Extractive capabilities

(D) Distributive capabilities

Select the correct answer from the code given below.

Code:

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69. Match the List-I with the List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET June 2008)

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70. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R): (NET June 2008)

Assertion (A): People and the state are of the same status.

Reason (R): People create the state.

In the context of the above two statements which one of the following is correct?

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71. Assertion (A): Communications theory treats the government as a decision-making system based on the information flows.

Reason (R): This is based on cybernetics model

(NET June 2009)

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72. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below: (NET June 2009)

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73. Which One of the following pairs properly matched? (NET June 2009)

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74. Match the following pairs and select the correct answer from the code given below: (NET June 2009)

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75. Give, with help of the code given below, the correct chronological order of emergence of the following theories/approaches in Political Science: (NET June 2009)

(i) Post-behaviourism

(ii) Structural-functionalism

(iii) Communitarianism

(iv) Neo-liberalism

Code:

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76. Who, among the following, has classified one-party system into broad one-party system, narrow one-party system and authoritarian one-party system? (NET June 2009)

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77. The members of the second chamber are elected by the people of the constituent units in: (NET June 2009)

(i) India

(ii) USA

(iii) Switzerland

(iv) UK

Select the correct answer from the code given below:

Code:

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78. Which of the following is not a part of the American constitutional system? (NET June 2009)

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79. Who among the following has used the concepts of 'goal changing' and 'learning' in his conceptual framework? (NET June 2009)

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80. Resurgence of political theory was emphatically arrested by: (NET June 2009)

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81. 'Credo of Relevance is the main slogan of: (NET June 2009)

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82. Assertion (A): The method of systems analysis adopted by Almond is more representative than that of David Easton.

Reason (R): Almond is the first major political scientist who has developed the systems analysis approach for the study of politics.

Select your answers to these items using the codes given below: (NET December 2009 Paper II)

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83. Give the chronological order of the following events in the evolution of the modern State system. (NET December 2009 Paper II)

(i) Vienna Congress

(ii) Paris Peace Treaties

(iii) Treaty of Westphalia

(iv) The Treaty of Utrect

Codes:

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84. According to Organski, the stages of political development are (NET December 2009 Paper II)

  1. Unification
  2. Industrialization
  3. Abundance
  4. National Welfare

Identify the correct chronological sequence of the above from the codes given below:

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85. Which one of the following pairs is not properly matched? (NET December 2009 Paper II)

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86. Which of the following is not a feature of the Parliamentary System? (NET December 2009 Paper II)

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87. Who, among the following, is not a dependency theorist? (NET December 2009 Paper II)

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88. The Residuary Powers rest with the States/Units in the political systems of (NET December 2009 Paper II)

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89. Limited Government has a close affinity to (NET December 2009 Paper II)

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90. The study of the Political System of a country at one time, in all its contexts, is known as the (NET December 2009 Paper II)

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91. Match the List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET December 2010 Paper II)

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92. What is the correct sequence of the former Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom? (NET December 2010 Paper II)

(i) Margaret Thatcher

(ii) Disraeli

(iii) Tony Blair

(iv) Winston Churchill

Select the correct answer from the codes given below:

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93. What is the correct sequence of the following? (NET December 2010 Paper II)

(i) Commonwealth of Independent States

(ii) Civil Rights Movement in U.S.A.

(iii) First General Election of India

(iv) Glorious Revolution in the United Kingdom

Select the correct answer from the codes given below:

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94. Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET December 2010 Paper II)

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95. Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from codes given below: (NET December 2010 Paper II)

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96. Who wrote the work “Political Order in Changing Societies”? (NET December 2010 Paper II)

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97. The role of pressure groups is limited to the welfare of (NET December 2010 Paper II)

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98. ‘World System Analysis’ was first presented by (NET December 2010 Paper II)

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99. Who among the following has given the concept of capabilities of a political system? (NET December 2010 Paper II)

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100. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). (NET December 2010 Paper II)

Assertion (A): The State is neither the handiwork of God, nor the result of superior physical force, nor the creation of resolution or convention, nor a mere expansion of the family.

Reason (R): The State is an institution of natural growth.

In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is correct?

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