This is a bizarre and tendentious reading of Civil War history - extra credit for illustrating it with a photo of Woodrow Wilson!https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/the-confederate-roots-of-the-administrative-state/ …
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Yes, he was important. But you reduce the history of federal bureaucracy to Wilson, & Wilson (largely) to his views on the Confederacy. That won't fly. For example: federal civil service reform, with bi-partisan support, dated to the 1880s, and protected most positions by 1910.pic.twitter.com/59Th9nq43s
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And the Tenure of Office Act tried to do many of the things the Confederate Constitution's provisions did, while being drafted by people highly unlikely to be drawing on the Confederacy's precedent.
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