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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a film about an average man’s journey and experience in Congress as Senator of Mississippi.

This docility and willingness to vote according to the older Senators was most likely caused by the new Senators’ fear of the political bosses. Mr. Smith, however, was sheltered from knowing that the political bosses even existed and, as a result, was not afraid to stand up for his beliefs. Mr. Taylor, a typical political boss of Smith’s time, had extreme power in his state and was able to tilt the public opinion of Senator Smith. He did this through his control of the state media and connections within the government. Taylor concocted evidence with the help of his government connections alleging that Smith owned the property intended for the boy’s camp and was only promoting the camp bill so that he could sell his own property to the government at a high price. Taylor then publicized these false accusations against Smith in the newspapers that he controlled, thus persuading public opinion and ultimately causing Smith to be accused of wrongdoing by a Senate committee. Throughout this entire entourage, Smith was too inexperienced and naive to stand up against Taylor’s political machine and resorted instead to crying at the Lincoln Memorial. Smith only returned to the Senate after Saunders convinced him that he should fight for his rights. This situation ultimately proved once again that Senator Smith was too naive to be an effective Senator. Smith did not realize that the other Senators were inclined to believe the accusations against his character, and therefore,

A Vision Achieved      Jefferson envisioned a government that allowed its citizens to exercise inalienable rights. In exact words, he states, “ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” To be more evident, how can we define these “inalienable rights” of “life”, “liberty”, and the “pursuit of happiness?” Have these inalienable rights, achieved Jefferson’s goal? I am convinced, Jefferson’s revolutionary vision of life, liberty, and happiness has at last been achieved in America.

“Monticello”, the Italian word for little mountain is the appropriate wording for Thomas Jefferson’s dream home. He picked out the site for such a fabled home as a young boy. At eight hundred and sixty-five feet tall, Jefferson truly does have his little mountain on which to live. Thomas Jefferson built his chalet in an abnormal spot in accordance with the times. Most if not all the people in the seventeen hundreds built their homes in the low lands or near rivers. On the contrary Thomas Jefferson was an abnormal man as that he was a statesman, a designer, a scholar, a astronomer, a philosopher, and lawyer.

When protagonist Jefferson Smith very suddenly becomes a US Senator, he is portrayed as the perfect example of nominal patriotism. He has several speeches by Washington and Lincoln memorized, is the leader of a group of what are basically Boy Scouts, and spends his first day in Washington DC in awe of the monuments.

Jefferson Smith is trying to win the fight against the corrupted politicans around him in order to achieve his idealistic opinions and plans.

There are many things that isolates Smith from the rest of the party. “The thing that he was abut to do was to open a diary. This was not illegal (nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws), but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death, or at least by twenty-five years in a forced-labor camp”( Orwell 1). writing in his diary, he is expressing the hate for big brother. because of the courage that he exhibits, he is standing out from the group. Having his diary open on the table, he takes a risk and writes all over it down with big brother.

Thomas Jefferson and his followers had a rigid vision of what they thought America would become, and it was in direct contrast to what many other federalists had planned. The Jeffersonian vision was that of state power, where localism was paramount and labor was independent of major imperialism like that of Europe (Brinkley 183). Although this vision did not come to fruition in whole, certain aspects did persist to shape the future of the country in education, economic development, culture and politics.

George Washington is the best Founding Father then all of the rest of the Founding Fathers,and that ever lived.George Washington has shaped America into almost perfection and has achieved the status of a legend.George Washington has achieved all of this by taking part in Pre-Revolutionary War,During the Revolution,and Post-Revolutionary War.He will be forever known as the man who made The United States of America,and “The Father of his Country”.

Mr. Smith is portrayed as an honest man with strong opinions. He is the ideal politician in an ideal society. The film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington depicts a "reassuring image" that happens to be "an image of the past" (Wheeler). However, in today's legislature, people like Mr. Smith are rare due to the fact that a politician's primary goal is re-election. The good of the people may come as another intention of a politician, but it is always secondary to "bringing home the pork." There should be more people like Mr. Smith because the legislature would be able to make decisions more effectively and efficiently, rather than how slowly they currently operate. This is an unfortunate truth, yet it is how our society has been shaped to operate.

George Washington is regarded as a natural leader and the father of our country. He was the first president under the Constitution, not the first president of the United States. From the very beginning, he came into a job full of problems and a mile long to-do list. He had to set up the Judiciary Branch, deal with uprisings and conflicts between the natives and the western settlers, and try to keep together a nation that was falling apart. He created a group of advisors (the cabinet) to help him with certain issues. He had a few things on his mind at the time such as: stay out of a war, build up revenue to pay off Revolutionary War debt, and try to make peace with England.

George Washington was commander in chief of the Continental army during the American Revolution and later became the first president of the United States serving from1789 until 1797. He symbolized qualities of discipline, aristocratic duty, military orthodoxy and persistence in adversity that his contemporaries valued as marked of mature political leadership

During the years while Washington was the General Master he was never a really good one. When Washington try to be the spotlight is when he was getting a speech to his fellow people in the colonies. If he lost the war he would become the person who has lost American. Washington have won some wars, but not all of them.

These lessons would seem to stay with him throughout his life. He is also erroneously

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is an American political drama/ comedy film directed by Frank Capra in 1939. The movie is about a young U.S. senator who fights for his innocence in America’s corrupt political system. The main character is Jefferson Smith, the newly appointed senator. Smith is the head of the boy rangers in town and is appointed by Jim Taylor, the political boss of the state governor Hubert Hopper. Senator Smith is looked after by Senior senator Joseph Paine, an old friend of Smith’s father. Senator Paine tells Smith to propose a bill, and lends his secretary Clarissa Saunders to aid him. The bill Smith proposes is to ask the Federal Government for a loan to buy acres of land in his home state for a national boy’s camp. The loan