“I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this writ of assistance is.”

About James Otis

Statesman • American

James Otis Jr. was a lawyer in colonial Massachusetts and a key intellectual figure in the American Patriot movement. He famously challenged the legality of British writs of assistance, arguing that general search...