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

“I‘ve been warning for some time that, if Trump is re-elected, he’ll work to politicize the civil service and set America on a path back to the 19th century, when the spoils system made Feds ...

The usual amnesiacs will say the victor gets the spoils, and that's just life in the big city. Baloney. It's true that the party that holds Ohio's map-drawing pencil has always been friendlier to ...

The “spoils system” of the 19th century filled the government with party loyalists and increased corruption across the country, until a popular political movement created appetite for reform.

Those of us who are history-minded have immediately thought of this as threatening a return to the “spoils system” of the 19th century, which was more or less ended by enactment of the ...

Such was the spoils system, which ruled American politics from roughly 1828 until 1883. Under the scheme, jobs in the federal government were handed out based on loyalty to the president ...

"To the victor belong the spoils." For decades in the 1800s, that phrase was more than a slogan; it was the official hiring ...

The U.S. is witnessing in these last couple of weeks with the firings of civil servants is an attempt to return to the old spoils system begun under Andrew Jackson in which workers were hired and ...

He says that under that "spoils system," the main job requirement for most federal employees was … loyalty. It was a system inaugurated by Democratic President Andrew Jackson. "When he came in ...