The civil service system is an employment system.
The civil service system is a system of hiring and promoting employees based upon the merit system. The merit system is the opposite of the spoils system.
merit
The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act established the merit based system of appointments which led to the decline of the spoils/patronage system. Instead of political affiliation government employees were selected by competitive exams and could not be fired based on political affiliation.
That some government jobs be filled on the basis of competitive examsThe Pendleton Civil Service Act required that people wanting government jobs had to pass certain tests. These tests were called Civil Service Exams. The Pendleton Civil Service Act also made it illegal to fire someone for openly stating their political opinions.
Merit System
The 47th US Congress created the civil service system in 1883, also known as the Pendleton Act. The act stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit or competitive exams, rather than political ties or political affiliation.
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Order of Merit happened in 1902.
Merit Network was created in 1966.
Merit - band - was created in 2002.
Legion of Merit was created in 1942.
No- the Pendleton Act was designed to replace the spoils system of appointing federal officials by using merit based on test scores to make appointments .
PFA Merit Award was created in 1974.
Merit Medical Systems was created in 1987.
Order of the Merit of Chile was created in 1929.