&gt; &gt; Do we feel that the civil service is sufficiently isolated from rapidly changing political pressures to ensure the rights of workers and to avoid the inherent issues involved in political control of a large group of government workers?<p>&gt; Why is that the goal?<p>The reason it became the goal is that there was a time when it wasn&#x27;t, and people saw what that became once the people in power realized what it enabled them to do, and said, &quot;Hey, that sucks, we should stop that.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Spoils_system" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Spoils_system</a>