During most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, appointments to the civil service were based primarily on <span>patronage</span>
Answer:
Factions.
Explanation:
After constitution was first ratified, several factions exist in United States in order to fight over control within the government.
Factions generally independent groups that tried to accumulate as much support from the government as possible in order to establish control upon the type of legislations that should be passed by the government.
Former President James Madison stated that he's scared that if a certain faction gained enough supporters, it will start to impose tyrannical measures to ensure that they always achieve their goals even if the minority were appressed along the way.
Lincoln's primary goal during his presidency was to "maintain the Union" meaning that he prized this goal above ending slavery since he knew that if the South were allowed to go free the nation would fail.
They were willing to be arrested to get their point acros