Resultado de búsqueda
James Otis was born in West Barnstable, Massachusetts, on February 5, 1725. He was the eldest of the 13 children of Colonel James Otis, a lawyer, politician, and judge. Young Otis attended Harvard University, graduating in 1743. He then read law and was admitted to the bar in 1748. In 1750 he moved to Boston, and in the spring of 1755 he ...
James Otis (1725–83) was a lawyer in Massachusetts and a member of the Massachusetts Legislature. In the mid-1760s he wrote a number of important pamphlets in favor of American independence and is said to have coined the revolutionary phrase “no taxation without representation”. Show more. Considerations of Behalf of the Colonists (author)
Hace 3 días · Massachusetts lawyer James Otis (1725––783) so firmly embraced the principle that “a man’s house is his castle” that he resigned as his colony’s Admiralty Court advocate general when pressed to defend the writs of assistance. Considering them a violation of “one of the most essential branches of English liberty,” he served as ...
Few today know James Otis, Jr. - born Feb 5, 1725 - whose 5 hour oration against the Writs of Assistance in 1761 sparked the flames of liberty, “American Ind...
- 14 min
- 1193
- Tenth Amendment Center
OTIS, JAMES (1725-1783), American patriot, was born at West Barnstable, Massachusetts, on the 5th of February 1725. He was the eldest son of James Otis (1702-1778), fourth in descent from John Otis (1581-1657), a native of Barnstaple, Devon, and one of the first settlers (in 1635) of Hingham, Mass. The elder James Otis was elected to the ...
OTIS, JAMES, JR. (1725–1783)Massachusetts lawyer, Harvard graduate (1743), and ideologue of the american revolution, James Otis, Jr., became constitutionally significant with paxton ' scase (1761), which concerned the issuance of writs of assistance by the Superior Court of Massachusetts.
James Otis was a Massachusetts lawyer who rose to provincial fame in the 1760s as one of the most able defenders of colonial American rights, beginning with his argument in what became known as the Writs of Assistance case in 1761. Writs of assistance were general search warrants that British American courts began issuing to empower customs ...
