The Number of Political Appointments Available to the President

question 26

Multiple Choice

The number of political appointments available to the president

• A) is constrained by the civil service system.
• B) puts the president in charge of deciding which individuals will occupy more than fifty thousand jobs in government.
• C) allows the president to appoint a majority of the civilian appointments in the bureaucracy.
• D) is confined mainly to the military.
• E) has been dramatically limited by the use of the constitutional amendment process.

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