This became known as the “spoils system.” Like Trump, Jackson also had a version of the “deep state” that he opposed. He claimed that the appointment process was aristocratic and blocked ...

Federal jobs were doled out as party patronage. They called it the “spoils system” because to the victor (of the election) went the spoils (all those jobs). Plenty of people knew the system ...

William Marcy of New York. The senator’s boast became a platitude and provided a label for the politics of the era: the spoils system. The spoils system propagated like a pernicious weed.

Under current law, higher education presidential searches have been twisted during the last few years into games where the outcome is pre-determined. | Opinion ...

Tlie one who sits on figurative college fences in the columns of the Boston Evening Transcript has recently pointed to the dangers which are contained in "battle of the goal posts". So far the ...