Collected Political Writings of James Otis
The Collected Political Writings of James Otis. Edited and with an Introduction by Richard Samuelson (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2015).
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Table of Contents
- The Life, Times, and Political Writings of James Otis
- A Note on the Texts
- Chronology of the Life of James Otis
- Acknowledgments
- [Part 1]: Otis in the Writs of Assistance Case
- 1.: John Adams’s Notes on the First Argument of the Case, February 1761
- 2.: Josiah Quincy Jr.’s Notes on the Second Argument of the Case, November 1761
- 3.: John Adams’s Reconstruction of Otis’s Speech in the Writs of Assistance Case
- 4.: Essay on the Writs of Assistance Case, Boston Gazette, January 4, 1762
- 5.: A Sample Writ of Assistance
- [Part 2]: Otis in Massachusetts Politics, 1761–63
- 1.: Essays from the Boston Gazette, December 21, 1761–April 11, 1763
- 2.: A Vindication of the Conduct of the House of Representatives of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay
- [Part 3]: Otis and the Imperial Crisis, 1764–67
- 1.: The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved
- 2.: A Vindication of the British Colonies
- 3.: Brief Remarks on the Defence of the Halifax Libel on the British-American-Colonies
- 4.: Otis in the Boston Gazette, May 13, 1765
- 5.: Considerations on Behalf of the Colonists. In a Letter to a Noble Lord
- 6.: Otis in the Boston Gazette, August 19 and 26, 1765, Responding to Criticisms of Noble Lord
- 7.: John Hampden to William Pym Essays from the Boston Gazette
- 8.: Freeborn American / Freeborn Armstrong Essays in the Boston Gazette
- 9.: November 1767 Essay by Otis in the Boston Gazette
- [BIBLIOGRAPHY]
- Sources Used and Cited in This Volume
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Biographical Sketches of Otis (no modern book-length biography exists)
- On the Writs of Assistance Case
- On the Otis-Hutchinson Feud
- On Otis’s Political Thought
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