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| | Spoils system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | However, there are still hints of the system in the U.S. diplomatic corps as most ambassadors to major nations are direct political appointments (often linked to contributions or other political connections) even though the majority of employees of the U.S. State Department are civil servants who are career diplomats. | | | In politics, a spoils system refers to an informal or formal practice by which the party in power, perhaps after winning an election, monopolizes prerequisites and government jobs with direct politically-motivated appointments. | | | Although higher cabinet level offices continue to be formed by the party of the winner of the Presidential election, the incumbents of the remaining government jobs were hired by agencies independent of the political parties, and their job security was insured by law, a state of affairs that continues today. |
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| | spoils system - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about spoils system |
| | The system soon became entrenched in state politics and was practiced more extensively on a national scale during the administration of Andrew Jackson Jackson, Andrew, 1767–1845, 7th President of the United States (1829–37), b. | | | in which he stated, "to the victor belong the spoils." On a national scale, the spoils system was inaugurated with the development of two political parties, the Federalists and the Democratic Republicans, and was used by the earliest Presidents, particularly Thomas Jefferson. | | | The spoils system has, however, continued for many federal offices and is even more prevalent in state and local governments. |
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| | Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.3, Entry 210, SPOILS SYSTEM: Library of Economics and Liberty |
| | Senators are the feudal lords of state politics, whose voice should be held supreme in selecting the federal officers to serve within these states; and if a president shall refuse to nominate a senator's favorite for a collector, the senator should resign, go home, and arouse his state against the president. | | | But it was Jackson who first adopted a fundamental article of the spoils system code, by making the doctrine of "rotation in office" a cardinal principle of his policy at the beginning of his administration. | | | It was not unnatural that the first unblushing avowal of it, at Washington, should be made by a senator from that state. |
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| | spoils system -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | The spoils system flourished unchallenged in the United States from the 1820s until after the Civil War, at which time the system's abuses prompted civil-service reforms designed to cut down the number of government posts filled by appointment and to award jobs on the basis of merit. | | | The term was in use in American politics as early as 1812, but it was made famous in a speech made in 1832 by Senator William Marcy of New York. | | | Cabinet member and U.S. Supreme Court justice (1829–61) whose most famous opinion was his dissent in the Dred Scott decision (1857). |
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| | The Spoils System. Moore's Lore: |
| | The spoils system was instituted by Democratic President Andrew Jackson. | | | The movement against the spoils system was led by a Republican named James A. Garfield. | | | Arthur, tied to the old system, wasn't even considered for re-election, but New York Governor Grover Cleveland, a Democrat who had not even been in politics when Garfield was shot (he was elected Mayor of Buffalo later in 1881, and Governor a year later) was elected. |
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| | Public Personnel Management: From spoils system to merit system--60 years of progress in Jefferson County, AL |
| | Initial proposals to have the board members appointed by state officials - such as the governor, attorney general, state treasurer, state superintendent of education, or by the county legislative delegation met with fierce opposition. | | | There were failed attempts to launch an investigation into the new civil service system by the attorney general's office as well as to persuade the Grand Jury to investigate. | | | The proposed system would encompass Jefferson County government, as well as the City of Birmingham and three other cities located within the county. |
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| | The spoils system has existed since the presidency of Andrew Jackson, but it is not seen exceedingly often today. | | | After Jackson was in office, the spoils system seemed to die down. | | | During the time of Conkling, President Hayes tried to reform the civil service, but he was not successful. |
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| | Increasing public criticism of the spoils system prompted Congress to pass the Civil Service Reform Act, more commonly known as the Pendleton Act, in 1883 to reduce patronage. | | | Initially, only about 10 percent of the positions in the federal civil service system were covered, but later laws and executive orders have extended coverage of the act to over 90 percent of all federal employees. | | | Many presidents, including Jackson, argued that in order to implement their policies, they had to be able to appoint those who subscribed to their political views as rewards for their support. |
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| | spoils system - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about spoils system |
| | The spoils system, a type of patronage, was used by President Jackson in the 1830s in particular, and by Republican administrations after the Civil War. | | | The system was epitomized by the Democratic Party ‘machine’ of Richard Daley (1902–76), mayor of Chicago 1955–76. | | | The term is derived from a speech after an election victory by Democratic Senator William Marcy: ‘To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.’ |
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| | Who Should Choose a Civil Service Career?: The Early Presidents |
| | The spoils situation had become so bad by 1811 that it was proposed to limit the patronage of Congress by Constitutional amendment. | | | It is doubtful whether President Jackson himself was an out-and-out “spoils man.” In the actual number of removals and patronage appointments he made, he certainly was not as bad as his reputation. | | | It was during Jackson& presidency that Senator Marcy, schooled in the sharp politics of New York State, applied to politics the phrase, “to the victor belong, the spoils.” Also Jackson appointed the man who became the symbol of government degradation. |
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| | Reader's Companion to American History - -SPOILS SYSTEM |
| | The spoils system, however, became most closely associated in the public mind with President Andrew Jackson, partly because his administration practiced it so widely and partly because he so explicitly endorsed it. | | | The practice of discharging officials appointed by one's predecessor and replacing them with those who had rendered service to one's own party had been common in the United States ever since political parties became well established during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson. | | | In his first inaugural address in 1829, Jackson offered "rotation in office" as a way of democratizing government, arguing that men of ordinary common sense could administer public affairs as effectively as the more aristocratic men who had previously dominated public office. |
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| | American President |
| | Henry Clay, leader of the congressional opposition to Jackson and stalwart of the American System, joined in odd alliance with John C. Calhoun, who had resigned his lame-duck vice-presidency for a seat in the Senate. | | | As a senator in 1824, Jackson had backed the System's twin pillars of a protective tariff to foster domestic industry and federal subsidies for transportation projects (known as "internal improvements"). | | | A Jackson senator from New York, William L. Marcy, defended Jackson's removals by proclaiming frankly in 1832 that in politics as in war, "to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy." Jackson was never so candid -- or so cynical. |
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| | village voice > news > Spoils System by Tom Robbins |
| | The former three-term governor, who once declined a presidential invitation to seek a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, never missed an opportunity to call for merit selection of judicial candidates, instead of the all but blind elections by which jurists are now chosen. | | | New York has had no clearer foe of the system of choosing judges by election than Cuomo. | | | When Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes announced his grand jury probe into the borough's judge-picking system at a press conference last April, he invoked Cuomo's name along with his own as an inveterate advocate of allowing public officials, guided by panels of experts, to select who gets to sit on the bench. |
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| | Andrew Jackson introduced the spoils system to the federal government. | | | Ironically, the president who led the successful campaign for civil service, Chester Arthur, a Republican, was linked to a party faction from New York that was known for its abuse of the spoils of office. | | | George Plunkitt, a local leader of New York City's Democratic party, defended the spoils system. |
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| | In 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes, a believer in the merit system, became president. | | | The supporters of the old system became known as Stalwarts. | | | Hayes ordered an investigation of the New York Custom House, and in 1878 Arthur was dismissed from his post. |
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| | 9NEWS.com Denver General Election |
| | This means that the personnel system will be in the hands of the politicians. | | | This allows decisions to be held up under public scrutiny. | | | Getting a job in Denver, or keeping your job, meant being a part of the winning Mayor's campaign and working with your precinct captain to secure a job. |
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| | H-Net Review: Mary K. McGuire on Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse |
| | It was this consolidation of political and administrative power in the federal state, in the form of the Post Office Department, which would influence the political and administrative battle over "spoils" and states rights in the Jackson presidential campaign and administration. | | | It also protected the sanctity of the mails from surveillance and other interference-a critically important innovation in a world context where privacy in communications was far from a right in law or in practice. | | | Likewise, his discussion of the abolitionist controversy-the mailing of unsolicited abolitionist literature to southerners-brings to light an important incident in the battle over states' rights vs. federal authority in the years preceding the Civil War. |
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| | Though the federal government was decidedly non-corrupt, it was considered extremely elitist, and to Jackson's credit, he argued for a regular rotation of these offices in order to allow every person a chance to serve in public office. | | | While many assume that this description of "staffing" government developed during Andrew Jackson's terms as President, he was merely upholding the tradition that had been established by those who came before him, primarily Thomas Jefferson. | | | Those who did were subsequently rewarded with governmental positions. |
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| | The course he followed became known as the spoils system from a speech justifying it made by the statesman William L. Marcy, who declared in 1832 that he perceived “nothing wrong in the maxim that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy.” | | | It reached its peak during the period of Reconstruction in the years following the American Civil War, when federal control of the defeated southern states created unparalleled opportunities for patronage. | | | It constitutes an extensive form of political patronage. |
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| | A new spoils system for the GOP?(perhaps slightly less than pleasant, not during meals alert) |
| | As some of us noted at the time, one of Jackson's key legacies was the "spoils system," under which federal jobs were reserved for political supporters. | | | --using Paul the Puke's logic, maybe some government spoils will go to somebody besides the AFL-CIO, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and the "affirmative action" candidates that Washington, DC jobs have been going to--all Demotraitor voters, of course-- | | | A few months ago, Rove compared his boss to Andrew Jackson. |
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| | News - The Coloradoan - www.coloradoan.com |
| | Jo Romero, president of the Colorado Federation of Public Employees, argued the proposals would create a spoils system, replacing constitutional guarantees of job security and establishing 400 political jobs subject to the whims of elected officials. | | | DENVER — Labor leaders challenged a proposal Tuesday that would ask voters to change the state civil service system, warning it would open the door to a political spoils system. | | | The measures also would expand the number of high-level employees who could be hired outside the civil service system. |
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| | village voice > news > Mondo Washington by James Ridgeway |
| | Aptly, it was New York's William Learned Marcy, a future secretary of state, who, in defending the patronage system set up by his pal (and future president) Martin Van Buren, remarked in 1832 to his fellow senators that "to the victor belong the spoils." | | | This is Washington gobbledygook for one of the most famous phrases ever uttered on the U.S. Senate floor. | | | The U.S. liberation and occupation of Iraq will help all freedom-loving people in one way or another. |
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| | spoils system. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002 |
| | The term comes from a statement by a senator in the 1830s: “To the victor belong the spoils.” Reform of the system commenced in the 1880s with the introduction of merit as the basis of appointment to office. | | | The practice of appointing applicants to public offices as a reward for their loyalty to the political party in power. |
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| | Labor Blog |
| | Back in the 19th century, work for the federal government was part of a partisan spoils system, where supporters of a President were rewarded and opponents punished. | | | Since the Civil Service Act of 1883, legislation has worked to insulate federal employees from pressure to toe the partisan line of the President's party. | | | Glad to find another person commenting on the nefarious plan to do aay with the civil service system. |
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| | American Renaissance March 1999 Issue |
| | In the last year or so, California and the state of Washington voted to abolish racial preferences. | | | In the same period, the Supreme Court outlawed racially gerrymandered districts designed to vote non-whites into office. | | | Since it is imposed universally, compliance causes no competitive disadvantage. |
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| | HardNews - Rotting in a spoils system |
| | The spoils system has come to stay.While the prime minister's instruction to the chief ministers to ensure stability when posting officers — in order to ensure efficiency and integrity in the public delivery system — seems unexceptionable, it is ironical. | | | But coalition politics at the Centre and the states has been eroding neutrality in the ranks of civil servants. | | | These aborted efforts to reform the civil service just serve to highlight the fact that there is no political will or bureaucratic interest in reforming the civil and police services — the continuance of the present system is convenient to both. |
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| | About Civil Service |
| | he basis for the merit system in New York State is provided for in the New York State Constitution. | | | It became law on January 16, 1883 and enacted the merit system. | | | New York State, whose early government had displayed most glaringly the evils of the spoils system, was first of the states to take positive action to correct them. |
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| | The system establishes the Secretary of DOD as supreme, his rules would be subjected to none others; marginalizing OPM, MSPB and FLRA. | | | The current Title 5 personnel system requires decisions be factually validated. | | | Any appeal which gets outside the system to say OPM, would be adjudicated using the dictator rules. |
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| | The Big Apple: "To the victor belongs the spoils" (Spoils System) |
| | He settled in Troy, N.Y., where he practiced law and, after serving in the War of 1812, held local offices. | | | “To the victor belongs the spoils” is the famous quote by New York Senator William Learned Marcy (1786-1857), recited in the U. Senate, 25 January 1832. | | | The “spoils system” became popularly used after the speech. |
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| | Grade 8, Lesson Outline: Chapter 16, Lesson 2 |
| | C. The Mugwumps were a group of Republicans who wanted to reform the spoils system and reduce the protective tariff. | | | B. Under the spoils system, government jobs were held by unqualified people who had supported or given money to their party. | | | B. Congress passed the Civil Service Act of 1883, which set aside about 15,000 federal jobs to be filled through a competitive test. |
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| | spoils system - definition of spoils system by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | The postelection practice of rewarding loyal supporters of the winning candidates and party with appointive public offices. | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | spoils system - the system of employing and promoting civil servants who are friends and supporters of the group in power |
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| | Chapter Nine |
| | Given the number of agencies and commissions and boards can the President or the Congress actually govern the United States ? | | | Edited American English is the form of English which is used in newspapers and magazines, in textbooks and fiction works, and in memos and letters. | | | Know the following terms: bureaucracy, civil service, departments, deregulation, government corporations, independent regulatory commissions, merit system, spoils system, whistleblowers, senatorial courtesy |
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| | Progressive Era Quiz |
| | Citizens request that their government pass a law | | | Progressive president who is responsible for conservation and the "square deal" | | | President who was assassinated by supporters of the spoils system |
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| | DBQ - Civil Service Reform |
| | From the beginning of the present system each President of the United States has been its friend, but no President has been a radical Civil Service reformer
| | | This cartoon is a sarcastic reference to a statement by Terence Powderly that "we (the Knights of Labor) work not selfishly for ourselves alone, but extend the hand of fellowship to all mankind." Powderly is in the center, a scab stands to his right and an employer stands to his left. | | | There is need of further legislation to perfect and extend the law and the system, but Congress has never been willing seriously to consider a proposition looking to this extension
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| | Boston.com / News / Nation / Report: elections chief used spoils system |
| | The office of California's top elections official used the "spoils system" in a number of hirings, including rigging the application process to ensure a job for the son of a financial backer, according to a state report released Tuesday. | | | Boston.com / News / Nation / Report: elections chief used spoils system | | | SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The office of California's top elections official used the "spoils system" in a number of hirings, including rigging the application process to ensure a job for the son of a financial backer, according to a state report released Tuesday. |
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| | Merit system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It came as a result of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act which helped to remove power from political machines after World War II. | | | The merit system is the process of promoting and hiring government employees based on their ability to perform a job, rather than on their political connections. |
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| | Boston.com / News / Nation / Medicare bill a study in D.C. spoils system |
| | It is just one small example of how the Washington spoils system went into overdrive as Republicans and Democrats alike sought to build support for the bill while also taking care of their home states and special-interest groups that mounted an enormous lobbying drive. | | | Last of three parts Republicans went to great lengths to make sure President George W. Bush won a Medicare prescription drug benefit for the elderly last year. | | | The money for the hospital -- whose doctors and executives have been an important source of campaign funds for Jeffords -- was a portion of the tens of billions of dollars congressional leaders lavished on the health-care economy as part of last year's Medicare prescription benefit law. |
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| | ROAPE: Article - Political Graft and Spoils System in Zambia |
| | This article traces a number of cases of graft in Zambia to show the importance of this practice within the political system. | | | Graft is treated as one element of a spoils system through which clientelism operates and through which, more generally, the state is used as a resource for private ends. | | | Graft and patronage are shown to have negative consequences for the state through undermining efficiency and legitimacy and displacing policy ends. |
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| | 'Spoils system' seen in hirings by Shelley's office The San Diego Union-Tribune |
| | SACRAMENTO – The office of the state& top elections official used the "spoils system" in a number of hirings, including rigging the application process to ensure a job for the son of a financial backer, according to a state report released yesterday. | | | The questionable hirings have been referred to the state Attorney General's office and could lead the personnel board to put Shelley's office on probation when it meets next month. | | | The report also suggested that Secretary of State Kevin Shelley created a hostile working environment with frequent outbursts and excessive demands on staff and couldn't produce copies of a sexual harassment complaint filed by an ex-staffer against him. |
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| | Prior to the Civil War, a spoils system existed in the U.S., with people becoming federal employees not because they were the best qualified, but because they had an "in." | | | Merit, as a basis for hiring, was now guaranteed by law. | | | "Protecting Merit System Principles and Veterans' Preference and avoiding Prohibited Personnel Practices are key to maintaining an effective civil service," stated James. |
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| | A brief biography of Andrew Jackson 1767 - 1845: 15 |
| | Still is "credited" with instituting the "spoils system" of rewarding ones political supporters with office. | | | So whether the appointments were due to a need to replace corrupt officials, or to reward ones party workers, the opposition worked hard at resisting them, and in many cases succeeded. |
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| | Flit(tm): Spoils System Problems |
| | A lot of these positions that are not obviously political but are held politically are held as non-obvious political payoffs in exchange for support. | | | This sort of bad service was what original led to the creation of the civil service system. | | | While I'm not a fan of the civil service system because it introduces a mandarin class the spoils system has its own idiocies. |
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| | ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Spoils System |
| | Spoils System, practice of making appointments to public office and of giving employment in the public service on the basis of political affiliation... | | | See all search results in Encarta Articles (81) | | | System, any collection of component elements that work together to perform a task. |
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| | Before the institution of civil service, under what used to be known as the spoils system — after the famous dictum “To the victor belong the spoils” — a government job of any kind was a reward for political service and electoral loyalty. | | | This means turning half the federal government into the civilian equivalent of the military-industrial complex, until now the most corrosively corrupt symbiotic relationship in government. | | | For a glimpse of the future under the Bush plan, Californians need only look at the insidious consequences of the state’s privatization of its prison system, which has created the most powerful corporate-ä political lobbies in the state and led to the politicization of the prison work force. |
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| | Politics in the Gilded Age: The Reform of the Spoils System |
| | Because one of the major issues during this period was Civil Service reform, it is entirely appropriate for the Hayes Center to sponsor a major symposium on the reform of the spoils system. | | | In the sixty-seven years since its opening, the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center has become a major resource for the study of American history in the period between the Civil War and the beginning of the twentieth century. | | | Politics in the Gilded Age: The Reform of the Spoils System |
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