Patronage, the giving of government jobs to people who had helped a candidate get elected, was a problem because the employees given these jobs were many times not qualified for the political position. They many times used their new position for personal gain.
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Patronage, the giving of government jobs to people who had helped a candidate get elected, was a problem because the employees given these jobs were many times not qualified for the political position. They many times used their new position for personal gain.
ps: this is totally correct.... it is in the book - "US history" . Hope this hep!!! :)
Patronage concerns in New York centered on the New York Custom House, where lucrative positions were controlled by etc
The antifederalist argued about the constition
How powerful the federal government should be
Prior to the centralized federal government being formed the thirteen colonies had colonial assemblies in which constiuents would meet to dicuss issues. The colonial assemblies arose largely because the government that the US was technical under, the British Monarchy, essentially ignored them. So the US government in the most current sense replaced the colonial assemblies, but the US government in general replaced the British Monarchy.
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