Clues to Adventure

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Dramatizes how three disparate events in history contributed to the adoption of three of the amendments in the United States Bill of Rights.Dramatizes how three disparate events in history contributed to the adoption of three of the amendments in the United States Bill of Rights.Dramatizes how three disparate events in history contributed to the adoption of three of the amendments in the United States Bill of Rights.

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- John Nesbitt
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Essentially what's known in the industry as a "cheater", as it's made up almost entirely of archive footage from Nursery Rhyme Mysteries (1943), The Story That Couldn't Be Printed (1939), and The Face Behind the Mask (1938), connected with new narration. This is also why there's no director credit.

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Narrator: [quoting the defense lawyer's concluding plea in the trial of John Peter Zenger] "Arbitrary governments oppress the people under their power, and when those people complain, the governments make those complaints a crime. We can bring but one verdict, one supreme right for all: the liberty of speaking and writing the truth."

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Edited from The Face Behind the Mask (1938)

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The Bill Of Rights

John Nesbit considers a Mother Goose rhyme, a newspaper article from the 18th Century, and a rusty piece of iron in this entry in THE PASSING PARADE.

Although some of the entries are weak in their assumptions, the middle one is about John Peter Zenger, and all three are linked by being the sources of the Bill of Rights - the first ten amendments to the United States constitution, enshrining the rights to freedom of speech, freedom of the press and the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.

In these difficult times - and all times are difficult for the people who live in them - it is good to reflect on these rights, which must be fought for continually; the Supreme Court of the United States spends most of its labor making that point again and again. These rights must not only be celebrated; they must be exercised continually, lest we get out of the habit.