Outline the development of the merit-based civil service system.
What will be an ideal response?
For much of the early history of the republic, presidents appointed federal bureaucrats at will through the patronage system. After the assassination of President James Garfield by a disgruntled patronage-seeker, his successor Chester Arthur and Congress passed the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883, which introduced a merit-based civil service system. This system, which included hiring principles of open competition, competence, and political neutrality, remains in existence today.
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The Texas governor during the Constitutional Convention of 1875 was E. J. Davis
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
The Constitution protects individuals from ____________ laws, which make some behavior illegal that was not illegal when the acts were committed
a. habeas corpus b. ex post facto c. de jure d. Marshall