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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.
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11 min
1949-04-11
Released
English
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6
Narrator (voice)
Woman Reading Newspaper (archive footage) (uncredited)
Man in Zenger's Shop (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Peter Zenger (archive footage) (uncredited)
Fisherman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mary, Queen of Scots (archive footage) (uncredited)
Townsman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Louis XIV (archive footage) (uncredited)
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