 | Michael Les Benedict, John F. Winkler - 2004 - 959 str.
...popular belief that government ought to be simple and understandable. In the words of Andrew Jackson, "The duties of all public officers are, or at least...intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance."117 Qualified or not, the legislators had no professional staff to assist them and no... | |
 | David M. Ricci - 2004 - 326 str.
...required for executing public work. After all, as Jackson put it, "The duties of all public offices are, or at least admit of being made, so plain and...intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance."43 So anyone might be sufficiently able and virtuous enough to do public work. But Jackson... | |
 | Joel D. Aberbach, Mark A. Peterson - 2005 - 644 str.
...patronage. Indeed, he had quite a different view of public service. "The duties of all public offices are, or at least admit of being made, so plain and...readily qualify themselves for their performance; and all can not but believe that more is lost by the long continuance of men in office than is generally... | |
 | Sean Wilentz - 2007 - 224 str.
...and democratize the government, especially the executive branch, by making official duties, he said, "so plain and simple that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance." He aimed to build upon Jefferson's desire to make merit and performance, not birth and family connections,... | |
 | Sean Wilentz - 2006 - 1114 str.
...service. He wanted, instead, to ventilate and democratize the executive branch by making official duties "so plain and simple that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance." Accordingly, he coupled rotation in office to proposals for what today would be called term limits,... | |
 | Jim Dator, Richard C. Pratt, Yongseok Seo - 2006 - 424 str.
...address, Jackson argued that "there was no need to confine offices to the highly educated few, for the 'duties of all public officers are, or at least...intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance.'"6 Thus when an old president left office and a new president came in, the personnel appointed... | |
 | Daniel Walker Howe - 2007 - 926 str.
...office" as good in itself. Jackson explained this policy in his Message to Congress of December 1829: "The duties of all public officers are, or at least...readily qualify themselves for their performance." Having thus rejected any need to recruit a meritocracy in public service, he went on to examine the... | |
 | Stewart Liff - 2007 - 252 str.
...any more intrinsic right to official station than another . . . The 14 Managing Government Employees duties of all public officers, are, or at least admit...intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance."13 The following decades were filled with corruption, and civil service jobs became highly... | |
 | Matthew A. Crenson, Benjamin Ginsberg - 2007 - 448 str.
...Jackson had a response for these critics: "The duties of all public officers are, or at least admit being made so plain and simple that men of intelligence...readily qualify themselves for their performance. . . ."9 ' The spoils system, as Lynn Marshall has pointed out, marked the first stirring of an impersonal... | |
 | Arthur Meier Schlesinger - 2008 - 592 str.
...administrative problems of government were sufficiently easy that he could plausibly describe official duties as "so plain and simple that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance." When times moved beyond that state of beatitude imagined by William Jennings Bryan where any man of... | |
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The duties of all public officers are, or at least admit of being made, so plain and simple that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance... 
