In line with Margaret Chase Smith's Declaration of Conscience (1950), the privilege of congressional immunity is described as an irony. Margaret posits that it is an irony that senators can in a debate, in the senate, impute to any American, who is not a senator, any legal action and having any legal redress against them but they can not do the same against any individual pertaining to the Senate. In other words, Senators found themselves with the power to verbally attack anyone without restraint and with full protection but ironically they are prevented from doing so among them. She describes this event as an abuse of individual power and privilege.