This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provisions - freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and prohibition of the infliction of cruel and unusual punishments - in the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights.
John Nesbitt
as Narrator (voice)
Mary Gordon
as Woman Reading Newspaper (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Hubbard
as Man in Zenger's Shop (archive footage) (uncredited)
Victor Kilian
as John Peter Zenger (archive footage) (uncredited)
Michael Mark
as Fisherman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mary McLeod
as Mary, Queen of Scots (archive footage) (uncredited)
Leonard Mudie
as Townsman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Leonard Penn
as Louis XIV (archive footage) (uncredited)
