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Spoils system

noun

The system of employing and promoting civil servants who are friends and supporters of the group in power.

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"Spoils system" Quotes from Famous Books

... professions. His longest and sharpest attack is upon the policy pursued by the President in rewarding his followers with office,—a policy in accord with the principles laid down in the inaugural. We are accustomed nowadays to strong statements of the viciousness of the spoils system, but no advocate of civil service reform has attacked the full-grown system of party rewards with any more vigor than Webster showed at the beginning of the system. "No, sir!" he exclaims indignantly, "no individual or party has a claim or right to any office whatever;" and he ...

— Noah Webster - American Men of Letters • Horace E. Scudder

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