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45. You are right.

Thu Dec 8, 2016, 10:56 PM

Dec 2016

Jackson turned over nearly the entire government. It used to be more common. It's not so common now, but I'm unsure just how much of that is tradition and how much is law. If tradition is all that stands between us and spoils based governance, then we are essentially screwed.

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