Merit-selection plans, in practice, are

a. immune from politics.
b. most often dominated by the legal profession.
c. reduced to a struggle between Democrats and Republicans.
d. immune from the governor's influence.

b

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The reformers who maintained that government officials should be chosen on a merit basis, not for their political connections, were known as

A) in-and-outers. B) civil servants. C) spoilers. D) stalwarts. E) mugwumps.

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Which of the following contributed to overcoming resistance to women’s suffrage?

a. nonviolent resistance by suffragettes b. the expansion of education for both sexes c. the burgeoning socialist movement of the 1910s d. the entry of women into the military in World War I

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