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They believe that it impairs the efficiency of the public service, lowers the standard of political contests, and brings reproach upon the Government and the people.
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Blaine argues that changing non-political officers for political reasons undermines government efficiency and integrity.
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All these provisions are made to protect the States, not to authorize an attack by one part of the country upon another; to preserve the peace, and not to plunge them into civil war.
Under such circumstances, to send a military force into any State, with orders to act against the people, would be simply making war upon them.
And if Congress shall break up the present Union by unconstitutionally putting strife and enmity and armed hostility between different sections of the country, instead of the domestic tranquility which the Constitution was meant to insure…
Is any portion of the people bound to contribute their money or their blood to carry on a contest like that?
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