It ensured that personal qualifications and experience were the primary factors in distributing government jobs.
It created more efficient government by ensuring that government employees were loyal and cooperative.
Spoil system or trophy system is the name given to the North American model for the appointment of new teams after the election of a president, having been instituted by Andrew Jackson in the first quarter of the 19th century.
According to Max Weber, it is a question of the attribution of all federal administration posts to the following of the victorious presidential candidate.
From then on, the party arises as a simple organization of job hunters, without any conviction.
It is equivalent to our jobs for the boys. It is in this sense that Bailey considers politics as a game in which competitors compete in an arena aiming to win trophies.
<span>The case in which the Supreme Court claimed the power of judicial review (the authority to declare a law unconstitutional) was "Maubery vs. Madison", since before this such a power was not a standard "check" on legislative power. </span>
