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describe the spoils system, and explain how it changed to the system of many rules that bureaucrats must follow today.

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The spoils system is a system in which public employment are based on rewarding party loyalists and friends, but due to biased decisions, the government would become corrupted with only certain people and groups in the government. So this lead to the creation of the Pendleton Act which established the tradition and mechanism of permanent federal employment based on merit rather than on the spoils system.

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