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The '''Hatch Act''' is a 1939 federal law that strictly limits the political activity of federal employees.  It was designed to prevent the [[Works Projects Administration]] (WPA) from becoming a national political machine.  It remains law today. 


The '''Hatch Act''' is a 1939 federal law that strictly limits the political activity of federal employees. It was designed to prevent the [[WPA]] from becoming a national political machine, and remains the law.  The Pendleton Act (1883), supplemented by executive orders of Presidents [[Grover Cleveland]] and [[Theodore Roosevelt]], limited the political activities of classified employees. The Hatch Act (1939) extended limitations to unclassified employees (that is, political appointees) as well.
The [[Pendleton Act]] (1883), supplemented by executive orders of Presidents [[Grover Cleveland]] and [[Theodore Roosevelt]], limited the political activities of career civil servants (e.g., in the General Service (GS) series, or GG series in the [[United States intelligence community]]). The Hatch Act (1939) extended limitations to employees appointed by the [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|current administration]] (e.g., Schedule C) as well.


Gall (1995) chronicles the Hatch Act from its passing in 1939, through its amendment in 1940, and to its further amendment in 1993. New Mexico Senator Carl A. Hatch drafted "clean up government" legislation that included a provision prohibiting federal employees from taking an active part in partisan political activity. The United Federal Workers of America (UFWA), an affiliate of the [[CIO]] challenged the law's constitutionality, but the Supreme Court ultimately ruled in United Public Workers v. Mitchell (1947) that government's need for "orderly management of administration" was greater than the appellant's freedom of expression. Organized labor won the long struggle, when in 1993 Congress passed a new amendment removing the restrictions.
Gall (1995) chronicles the Hatch Act from its passing in 1939, through its amendment in 1940, and to its further amendment in 1993. New Mexico Senator [[Carl A. Hatch]] drafted "clean up government" legislation that included a provision prohibiting federal employees from taking an active part in partisan political activity. The [[United Federal Workers of America]] (UFWA), an affiliate of the [[Congress of Industrial Organizations]] (CIO) challenged the law's constitutionality, <[[Talk:Hatch Act#1993|see talk page]]>
 
==Bibliography==
*  Eccles, James R.  ''The Hatch Act and the American Bureaucracy.'' Vantage, 1981. 318 pp. 
* Fowler, Dorothy Ganfield.  "Precursors of the Hatch Act," ''Mississippi Valley Historical Review'' 1960 47(2): 247-262. ISSN: 0161-391X  Fulltext: in Jstor
* Gall, Gilbert. "The CIO & the Hatch Act: the Roosevelt Court and the Divided New Deal Legacy of the 1940s." ''Labor's Heritage 1995'' 7(1): 4-21. Issn: 1041-5904 
* Jones, Charles O. "Reevaluating the Hatch Act: a Report on the Commission on Political Activity of Government Personnel." ''Public Administration Review'' 1969 29(3): 249-254. Issn: 0033-3352 Fulltext: in Jstor and Ebsco
* Porter, David. "Senator Carl Hatch and the Hatch Act of 1939." ''New Mexico Historical Review'' 1973 48(2): 151-164. Issn: 0028-6206
 
 
 
 
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The Hatch Act is a 1939 federal law that strictly limits the political activity of federal employees. It was designed to prevent the Works Projects Administration (WPA) from becoming a national political machine. It remains law today.

The Pendleton Act (1883), supplemented by executive orders of Presidents Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt, limited the political activities of career civil servants (e.g., in the General Service (GS) series, or GG series in the United States intelligence community). The Hatch Act (1939) extended limitations to employees appointed by the current administration (e.g., Schedule C) as well.

Gall (1995) chronicles the Hatch Act from its passing in 1939, through its amendment in 1940, and to its further amendment in 1993. New Mexico Senator Carl A. Hatch drafted "clean up government" legislation that included a provision prohibiting federal employees from taking an active part in partisan political activity. The United Federal Workers of America (UFWA), an affiliate of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) challenged the law's constitutionality, <see talk page>

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