The Collected Political Writings of James Otis
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Collected Political Writings of James Otis
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- [CONTENTS]
- [INTRODUCTION]
- The Life, Times, and Political Writings of James Otis
- A Note on the Texts
- Chronology of the Life of James Otis
- Acknowledgments
- Collected Political Writings of James Otis
- [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
- To the PRINTERS.
- 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
- December 21, 1761
- December 28, 1761
- January 11, 1762
- January 11, 1762 (supplement)
- January 31, 1763
- February 28, 1763
- March 21, 1763
- April 4, 1763
- April 11, 1763
- 2.: A Vindication of the Conduct of the House of Representatives of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay
- THE PREFACE
- A VINDICATION &c.
- ERRATA.8
- Advertisement.
- [Part 3]: Otis and the Imperial Crisis, 1764–67
- 1.: The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved
- INTRODUCTION
- Of the Origin of Government
- Of Colonies in general
- Of the natural Rights of Colonists
- Of the Political and Civil Rights of the British Colonists
- Appendix
- 2.: A Vindication of the British Colonies
- ADVERTISEMENT
- A Vindication of the British Colonies, against the Aspersions of the Halifax Gentleman in his Letter to a Rhode-Island Friend
- POSTSCRIPT
- 3.: Brief Remarks on the Defence of the Halifax Libel on the British-American-Colonies
- Brief REMARKS, &c.
- 4.: Otis in the Boston Gazette, May 13, 1765
- 5.: Considerations on Behalf of the Colonists. In a Letter to a Noble Lord
- A LETTER, &.
- 6.: Otis in the Boston Gazette, August 19 and 26, 1765, Responding to Criticisms of Noble Lord
- [August 19, 1765]
- [August 26, 1765]
- 7.: John Hampden to William Pym Essays from the Boston Gazette
- December 9, 1765 John Hampden to Wm. Pym.
- December 16, 1765 John Hampden to Wm. Pym.
- December 23, 1765 John Hampden to Wm. Pym.
- December 30, 1765 John Hampden to Wm. Pym.
- January 6, 1766 John Hampden to Wm. Pym.
- January 13, 1766 John Hampden to Wm. Pym.
- January 20, 1766 John Hampden to Wm. Pym.
- January 27, 1766 John Hampden to Wm. Pym.
- November 24, 1766
- December 1, 1766
- 8.: Freeborn American / Freeborn Armstrong Essays in the Boston Gazette
- January 27, 1766
- February 3, 1766
- March 10, 1766
- March 17, 1766
- February 9, 1767
- March 9, 1767
- April 27, 1767
- 9.: November 1767 Essay by Otis in the Boston Gazette
- November 30, 1767
- [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
- On Otis and Empire
Key Quotes
Origin of Government
The form of government is by nature and by right so far left to the individuals of each society, that they may alter it from a simple democracy or government of all over all, to any other form they please. Such alteration may and ought to be made by express compact: But how seldom this right has…