Iacobus Otis minor

Iacobus Otis minor (5 Februarii 1725—23 Maii 1783) fuit causidicus in Massachusetta colonica, membrum conventus provincialis Massachusettae, et suasor iudiciorum reipubliae amicorum contra proposita Britannica quae Res Novas Americanas commoverunt. "Vectigal sine repraesentatione est tyrannis,"Anglice: "Taxation without representation is tyranny." sua sententia propria, pro fundamentali reipublicae amicorum argumento fuit.Sententia iam in usu in Hibernia fuit. David McCullough, John Adams (Novi Eboraci: Simon & Schuster, 2001, ISBN 9780743223133), p. 61. Otis gradum A.B. in Collegio Harvardiano anno 1743 accepit, seque ad summam professionem legitimam celerrime levavit. Repente obiit anno aetatis suae 58 cum, ad ostium domus amici stans, fulmine ictus esset. 

Opera prolata
1760. The Rudiments of Latin Prosody.Primus duorum libellorum de prosodia poetica scriptorum, quibus Collegium Harvardianum pro libro scholastico usum est.
1762. A Vindication of the Conduct of the House of Representatives.
1764. The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved.
1765. Considerations on Behalf of the Colonists.

Adnotationes

Bibliographia
Breen, T. H. 1998. Subjecthood and Citizenship: The Context of James Otis's Radical Critique of John Locke. New England Quarterly 71(3):378–403 in JSTOR
Brennan, Ellen E. 1979. James Otis: Recreant and Patriot. New England Quarterly 12:691–725. in JSTOR
Farrell, James M. 2006. The Writs of Assistance and Public Memory: John Adams and the Legacy of James Otis. New England Quarterly 79(4):533–556. in JSTOR
Ferguson, James R. 1979. Reason in Madness: The Political Thought of James Otis. William and Mary Quarterly 36:194–214. in JSTOR
Frese, Joseph R. 1957. James Otis and the Writs of Assistance. New England Quarterly 30:496–508. in JSTOR
Pencak, William. 2000. Otis, James. In American National Biography Online.
Samuelson, Richard A. 1999. The Constitutional Sanity of James Otis: Resistance Leader and Loyal Subject. Review of Politics 61(3):493–523. in JSTOR
Shipton, Clifford K. 1960. Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 11:247–287.
Waters, John J., Jr. 1968. The Otis Family in Provincial and Revolutionary Massachusetts.

Nexus externi

Ridpath, John Clark. ''James Otis, the pre-revolutionist (Project Gutenberg)

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