In 1751, the Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly ordered a bell to be placed at the Pennsylvania State House, now known as Independence Hall in Philadelphia. The bell was to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of William Penn’s “Charter of Privileges”—addressing Penn’s ideas of rights and freedoms, and adopted as Pennsylvania’s original constitution. And on the bell is inscribed words from Leviticus 25:10: “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof . . .” The be