...the public and the chief executive. "Offices are created solely for the benefit of the people," and "no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another," he said.4 In addition to his principle of rotation of office, (subsequently called the spoils system...

...gained by their experience. . . . hi u country where offices are created solely for the benefit of ihe people, no one man has any more intrinsic right to...individual wrong is, therefore, done by removal, since either appointment to nor continuance in office is matter of right. The incumbent became an officer...

...making this unwittingly ironic declaration in an 8 December 1829 speech: "In a country whose offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no...more intrinsic right to official station than another " 147. Remini, The Age of Jackson, 17. Originally found in Gaillard Hurt, ed., The First Forty Years...

...so plain and simple that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance. Offices were not established to give support to particular...neither appointment to, nor continuance in office is a matter of right. He who is removed has the same means of obtaining a living that are enjoyed by the...

...where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people," declared President Andrew Jackson, "no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another" (Wood 304). In The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Gordon Wood describes the political competition...

...examine the issue purely as the distribution of favors among the citizenry. "In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no...intrinsic right to official station than another." Qualifications and experience were just excuses invoked to justify the perpetuation of privilege.18...

...legitimate ends and make it an engine for the support of the few at the expense of the many. Its offices are created solely for the benefit of the people....intrinsic right to official station than another. No individual wrong is done by removal, since neither appointment or continuance in office is matter...

...principle that any man was as capable as any other in matters of governance: "In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no...any more intrinsic right to official station than another."23 For the first half-century of the Republic, the "better" people had owned not just the...

...opted for a new type of system termed as Democratic system. It is based upon democratic principle : "No one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another." (Jackson). Its main features are : (a) The system is immune from class division. An employee may join...

...is lost by the long continuance of men in office th;m is generally to be gained by their experience. No one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another'. Today, except for »ome top officials in some departments, all government workers are under Civil Service...