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Pendleton Act of 1883  

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  • The Pendleton Act of 1883, also known as the Civil Service Act, was the first major piece of legislation that regulated elements of a federal bureaucracy plagued with a history of patronage, graft, and corruption. In the decades following the American Civil War, reformers advocated a system of government administration that was more responsive to the public and less beholden to political parties and their machines. [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; Pendleton Act of 1883]

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