Mises Daily
Author:
Murray N. Rothbard
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the rest of their lives on attacking spoils and calling for life tenure and open examinations on “merit” for the civil service, and who began their agitation at than efficiency. For them, such structural changes as life-tenure and competitive open examinations were mere means to an end, their overall goal being to put “good Brahmin and a leader of the Radical Republicans, introduced a bill for tenure and open examinations, to be administered by a federal civil service commission. Sumner’s