Liberty Bell Center

Philadelphia
PA
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Already cracked when it was imported from England, the bell was recast in 1753 but later cracked again. It was probably rung on the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence.

But the peculiar character of [Aaron] Burr’s correspondence goes beyond his preoccupation with haste and secrecy. Burr never developed any ideas about constitutionalism or governmental policy in the way the other Revolutionary statesmen did, because, in truth, he was not much concerned about such matters. If he had any idea about the new federal Constitution of 1787, he left no record of it.

— Gordon S. Wood
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 (2009)