PSCI 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
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Discover what government can properly and successfully do, and . How it can do these things with efficiency at the least cost. Determine the most clarifying political conceptions (wilson 1887) Who shall make law, and what shall that law be? . Hegel quote: truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an (wilson 1887) emergent synthesis which reconciles the two. Wide separation either temporally or spatially between cause and effect. If difficulties of governmental action are to be seen gathering in other centuries, they are to be seen culminating in our own . It is getting harder to run a constitution than to frame one. Where government once might follow the whims of a court, it must now follow the views of a nation. (wilson 1887) The transcontinental railroad had been completed in 1869. 620,000 out of 35. 2 million were killed during the civil war.