American Revolution War Begins Due To The Writs of Assistance

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In 1761, Massachusetts lawyer, James Otis, made a name for himself arguing against the Writs of Assistance. The Writs of Assistance were general search warrants that gave Crown-appointed agents the ability to search private homes and establishments without probable cause or permission. Colonial reaction to these new laws was extremely negative and could certainly be considered as one of the main causes of the American Revolution.

Otis was asked by those arguing against the Writs of Assistance to make an impassioned speech on the subject. It is said that his speech was a galvanizing moment for resistance to British authority. Otis would call the Writs of Assistance “The worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty and fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law-book”.

John Adams would later remark that, ‘then and there the Child Independence was born”. With one powerful speech, James Otis lit a spark that would be come one of the causes of the American Revolution.

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