"<span>Slavery was abolished in the United States" has nothing to do with the Dredd Scott case, which instead said that blacks had no standing in court because they were not citizens. </span>
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Answer: similarly to Lafayette or Mirabeau, Louis XVI believed in moderate way of doing this revolution. Neither Lafayette nor Mirabeau were republicans. Louis XVI was not republican. In contrast to Mirabeau or Lafayette Louis XVI was forced to call for General States (1789) because of problems with state budget (minister of finances Jacques Necker made him to make his made about it, there was no other way). Louis XVI was no republican
Explanation: Louis XVI has no free will already in 1789. He was also under the influence of much more radical right: 1) his wife Marie Antoinette (from Austrian dynasty of Habsburg), 2) his brothers : Louis de Provence, Charles d´Artois, 3) emigration (aristocracy that already during 1789, 1790 escaped to Rhineland, especially to Koblenz). When he tried to escape, he was caught with all his family in Varennes, and then executed (January 1793).
The purpose of the spoils system is to give your supporters political positions in various federal offices. To the victor go the spoils means that if you win, you can put all your friends or family members or party members at high positions because you control those positions. It's not a system based on merit which was introduced later, after Jackson's policies.