<span>They put barbed wire around their land.
They polluted water sources with animal waste.
They kept hundreds of cattle at one time.</span>
The trial of Peter Zenger, a noted publisher in New York, worked to establish the rights of a free press.
Zenger's trial was still fresh in the minds of some of the founders when they worked to push for an Amendment to the Constitution a generation later that expressly gave the press rights.
