God gives people their fundamental rights, including the right to property. Knowing the limitations and weaknesses of Man, God ordained government to protect the civil rights of freeborn men and women. Within that context, any rightful or valid government is accountable to the people and achieves its authority via the consent of its subjects. In order to have that consent and to achieve its just ends, government must be close to the people. It must be representative of the people over which it governs.
Parliament fails that basic test.
He concludes that a renewed acknowledgement of and commitment to these fundamental principles of government and British common law would firmly unite all parts of the British empire in the greater peace and prosperity, and render it invulnerable and perpetual. Agree with him or not, James Otis was not driven to these words by greed or power. He was cause-motivated. Having gone through the exhaustive process of developing a personalized, yet sound legal philosophy steeped in English common law tradition, Otis was guided by an enthusiasm for what he believed in. His was a sincere commitment to the fundamental and constitutional rights of the colonists as full-fledged British subjects.