 This short dramatizes how disparate events in history contributed to the adoption of three provisions in the U.S. Constitution s Bill of Rights. The events (and the affected Constitutional provisions) are 1) The political basis for the nursery rhyme  Hush-a-Bye Baby  (freedom of speech); 2) The trial of newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger (freedom of the press); and 3) the unsolved mystery of the  Man in the Iron Mask  (prohibition of the infliction of  cruel and unusual punishments ).