Political Science · Political Theory
UGC NET December 2018 Political Science
Who said, 'A Government without a Constitution is a power without right'?
AThomas Paine ✓ Correct
BKarl Deutsch
CDavid Apter
DWalter Bagehot
Correct answer: (A) Thomas Paine — The line that a government without a constitution is power without right is Thomas Paine's.
Explanation
★The line that a government without a constitution is power without right is Thomas Paine's.
★He made the argument in Rights of Man (1791), written to defend the French Revolution against Edmund Burke's attack.
★For Paine, legitimate authority must rest on a constitution that secures the people's rights, otherwise it is mere power.
★Karl Deutsch is known for the communications and cybernetic model of politics, not for this statement.
★David Apter worked on modernisation and Walter Bagehot on the English constitution, so neither one fits.
★So Thomas Paine is the correct answer.
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