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  2. Tenure of Office Act (1867) - Wikipedia

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    The Tenure of Office Act was a United States federal law, in force from 1867 to 1887, that was intended to restrict the power of the president to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the U.S. Senate. The law was enacted March 2, 1867, over the veto of President Andrew Johnson. It purported to deny the president the power to ...

  3. Term limits in the United States - Wikipedia

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    According to historian Garrett Fagan, office holding in the Roman Republic was based on "limited tenure of office" which ensured that "authority circulated frequently", helping to prevent corruption. An additional benefit of the cursus honorum or run of offices was to bring the "most experienced" politicians to the upper echelons of power ...

  4. Tenure of Office Act - Wikipedia

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    Tenure of Office Act may refer to: Tenure of Office Act (1820) Tenure of Office Act (1867) This page was last edited on 30 December 2019, at 15:28 (UTC). Text is ...

  5. Impeachment of Andrew Johnson - Wikipedia

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    [18] [20] [57] [75] The first article specifically alleged that Johnson's February 21, 1868, order to remove Stanton was made with intent to violate the Tenure of Office Act. The second and third articles argued that the appointment of Thomas as secretary of war ad interim was similarly done with intent to violate the Tenure of Office Act. The ...

  6. Term of office - Wikipedia

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    A term of office, electoral term, or parliamentary term is the length of time a person serves in a particular elected office. In many jurisdictions there is a defined limit on how long terms of office may be before the officeholder must be subject to re-election .

  7. Term limit - Wikipedia

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    A term limit is a legal restriction on the number of terms a person may serve in a particular elected office.When term limits are found in presidential and semi-presidential systems they act as a method of curbing the potential for monopoly, where a leader effectively becomes "president for life".

  8. Civil service reform in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The five important civil service reforms were the two Tenure of Office Acts of 1820 and 1867, Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883, the Hatch Acts (1939 and 1940) and the CSRA of 1978. [1] In addition, the Civil Service Act of 1888 drastically expanded the civil service system.

  9. Tenure of Office - Wikipedia

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    Tenure of Office may refer to: Academic tenure; Burrowing (politics), tenure by political contrivance; Tenure of Office Act (disambiguation) See also. Term of office