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If the dual state depends on discretion, it depends even more on people. This chapter examines how appointments, dismissals, loyalty tests, and patronage networks shape the balance between the normative state and the prerogative state. It asks whether personnel changes under Trump strengthened institutional independence, or embedded executive loyalty within the machinery of the American state.