When it was developed during the jackson administration,the patronage system was designed to:

A.provide jobs to merit appointees.
B.increase congressional control of the bureaucracy.
C.increase judicial control of the bureaucracy.
D.make the administration of government more responsive to ordinary citizens.

I think (b) or (d)

3 answers

According to this article, D is the best answer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacksonian_democracy
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