The trouble started in the 1820s when Andrew Jackson rebelled against the political establishment ... “To the victors belong the spoils of the enemy,” gloated Jackson’s ally, Sen.

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Trump wants the federal government to be more immediately responsive to his political ... comparisons to the spoils system put in place by his presidential hero, Andrew Jackson.

This became known as the “spoils ... if political loyalty replaces merit as the basis of key federal appointments, Americans can expect government to be less competent — as Andrew Jackson ...

Less than two weeks before Election Day, former President Donald Trump signed an executive order that threatened to return the U.S. to a spoils system ... in 1829 when Andrew Jackson, the seventh ...

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Andrew Jackson wrote home to his wife ... And finally, there is the view of historians who have studied Jackson’s political and social motivations in context with the times.

This became known as the “spoils ... if political loyalty replaces merit as the basis of key federal appointments, Americans can expect government to be less competent – as Andrew Jackson ...

As we write in our book “How Government Built America,” newly elected President Andrew Jackson ... but widespread corruption. Jackson’s actions that rewarded political loyalists and punished ...