Every one with this writ may be a tyrant in a legal manner, also may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.
James OtisParliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so.
James OtisGovernment is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and of the revolution of 1688; nor on property, as was the assertion of Harrington. It springs from the necessities of our nature, and has an everlasting foundation in the unchangeable will of God.
James Otis