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Tuesday, November 15, 2016

THE SPOILS SYSTEM WAS NOT LIMITED TO THE PRESIDENCY AFTER JACKSON

"This Jackson did, above all by instituting an all-out spoils system for federal offices. This too enhanced political enthusiasm and Jackson’s reputation as a man of the people rather than the established elite...." Randall Collins

Think for example of Reconstruction under the Radical Republicans.

It had become a party spoils system, not merely a presidential one.

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