April 18, 2007

Item of the Day: The Rights of the British Colonies by James Otis (1764)

Full Title:  The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved. By James Otis, Esq.  Boston, Printed and Sold by Edes and Gill, in Queen Street. M,DCC,LXIV.
Introduction.
Of the Origin of Government.
The origin of government has in all ages no less perplexed the heads of lawyers and politicians, than the origin of evil has embarrassed divines and [...]