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.

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• John Nesbitt
• Mary Gordon
• John Hubbard
• Victor Kilian
• Michael Mark
• Mary McLeod
• Leonard Mudie
• Leonard Penn