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Fixed links below. Excellent articles, both by Jeffrey Tucker. The Astonishing Implications of Schedule F quote: this executive order would have been “the biggest change to federal workforce protections in a century, converting many federal workers to ‘at will’ employment.”
Unfortunately, the executive order creating Schedule F was done too late in Potus 45's term to take effect, and Brandon repealed it on his first day. The Origin and Operation of the US Administrative State quote: the Pendleton Act ... created a permanent civil service. The new president, Chester Arthur signed the bill in 1883. It was done: the administrative state was born.
What Congress did not understand at the time was that they had fundamentally altered the American system of government. The Constitution nowhere provides for a permanent class of administrative overlords to whom Congress could outsource its authority. It nowhere said that there would exist a machine technically under the Executive branch that the president could not control. The Pendleton Act created a new layer of statist imposition that was no longer subject to democratic control.
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