Margaret Chase Smith: Constructive Criticism

"Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned but not bought.”-Margaret Chase Smith, on June 1st, 1950 during Declaration of Conscience speech.

Margaret Chase Smith was Born in Scowhegn, Maine. She got into politics when her employer said that she should join the town council and she came into the House to finish her husband's term in office after his death. Margaret Chase Smith's portrait should be saved from the thieves, because she was the first woman elected to both houses of congress, and she was also the first senator to stand up to senator McCarthy, and she was important to many government organizations. Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman elected to both houses of congress. Margret Chase Smith was a help to get woman into both houses and that if a woman was good in the senate that they wouldn't just be good in the senate. She was also the first woman to be …show more content…
Senator Smith belived that what McCarthy was doing was ruining the name of the U.S. Senate. Senator Smith gave a 15 minute speech to consering certain rights, " The right to criticize, The right to hold unpopular beliefs, The right to protest, The right of independent thought." Margaret Smith, June 1st, 1950 Declaration of Conscience speech. The rights that Senator Smith was talking about were being violated by McCarthy. When he heard of a communist sipathiser he would take them to court and have them punished. McCarthy genraly won. When Senator Smith stood up for these poeple then she became a target for McCarthy. He was able to get her off an important investigative comitty. After she first became aware of this and she started to defend these poor victims few senators joined her cause inculing Senator Tobey, Senator Aiken, Senator Morse, Senator Ives, Senator Thye, and Senator