A civil service system is defined by " those branches of public service concerned with all governmental administrative functions outside the armed services. The body of persons employed in these branches. a system or method of appointing government employees on the basis of competitive examinations, rather than by political patronage."
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The civil service system is an employment system.
Civil service virtually ended the the spoils system. Civil service workers get their jobs through competitive examinations and keep them even though a new administration comes into power.
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.
Under the civil service system, federal workers are hired based on their testable skills for the job, and cannot be fired for belong to the wrong party.
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