Read the following passage from Senator Smith's "Declaration of Conscience":
It is ironical that we Senators can debate in the Senate directly or indirectly, by any form of words, impute to any American who is not a Senator any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming an American-and without that non-senator American having any legal redress against us -yet if we say the same thing in the Senate about our colleagues we can be stopped on the grounds of being out of order.
A. To persuade Americans to bring lawsuits against senators who make accusations against them
B. To convince the Senate to remove the rules that allow them to call other senators out of order
C. To pressure the president into signing new anti accusation bills into law
D. To push the Senate to consider the negative effects of the accusations on the typical American citizen
What is Smith's goal in pointing out this irony?
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