id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6827 James Otis Jr. - Wikipedia .html text/html 2826 290 67 (February 5, 1725 – May 23, 1783) was an American lawyer, political activist, pamphleteer, and legislator in Boston, a member of the Massachusetts provincial assembly, and an early advocate of the Patriot views against the policy of Parliament which led to the American Revolution. Otis was the first leader of the period to develop distinctive American theories of constitutionalism and representation, but he relied on traditional views of Parliamentary authority. — James Otis, Rights of the British Colonies, 1764[20] "The Life, Times, and Political Writings of James Otis". "The Writs of Assistance and Public Memory: John Adams and the Legacy of James Otis," New England Quarterly (2006) 79#4 pp. "James Otis and the Writs of Assistance," New England Quarterly 30 (1957) 30:496–508 in JSTOR The Life of James Otis, of Massachusetts: Containing Also, Notices of Some Contemporary Characters and Events, from the Year 1760 to 1775. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6827.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6827.txt