Government Workers Cannot Be Fired for Their Political Views
The First Amendment forbids widespread loyalty purges.
What Trump is doing to the US government is not a spoils system
We will not know the extent or the success of President Donald Trump’s purge of the federal bureaucracy for some time. There ...
"To the victor belongs the spoils": Trump's imperial ambition is fueled by the myth of his mandate
Now, it's important to distinguish his belief that "to the victor belongs the spoils" in the imperialist context from a ...
Civil Servants Are Not America’s Enemies
Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to ...
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What Trump is doing to the US government is not a spoils system
It’s an imperfect comparison, as I learned from Daniel Feller, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Tennessee, who has written extensively about Jackson and the spoils system of ...
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What Trump is doing to the US government is not a spoils system
FELLER: The rise of the spoils system during and after Jackson’s presidency – it wasn’t all Jackson’s doing – was attendant upon the rise of political partisanship in the United States ...