Practice question · True or false
Wilson's dichotomy was proposed as a reform aimed at the spoils system.
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- Consider what happened to officials when governments changed before it.
- Its practical programme was a permanent civil service appointed on merit.
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True
Why
True, and remembering the target keeps the argument fair. Wilson was attacking an arrangement in which every change of government replaced the officials, and his separation was the intellectual case for a permanent, qualified service. It achieved that, whatever its analytical shortcomings.
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