 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1905 - 432 halaman
...search certain places were legal, he denounced the general warrant in use as "the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law-book"; as a weapon "that places the liberty of every man in the... | |
 | Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - 1920 - 296 halaman
...hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is. It appears to me the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that was ever found in an English law book. I must, therefore, beg your honors' patience and attention... | |
 | Zechariah Chafee - 1920 - 458 halaman
...silverware. And this in the state where James Otis denounced general warrants as " the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law book," since they placed " the liberty of every man in the hands... | |
 | Clarence Stratton - 1920 - 364 halaman
...hand and villainy on the other, as this Writ of Assistance is. It appears to me the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English lawbook. JAMES OTIS: On Writs of Assistance, 1761 Informative and... | |
 | William Henry Hudson, Irwin Scofield Guernsey - 1922 - 778 halaman
...in its larger aspects and issues. He declared that the Writ of Assistance was " the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law-book " ; and that it represented an attempt to revive " a kind... | |
 | 1922 - 560 halaman
...in Boston in February 1761, wherein James Otis characterized this practice as "the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty, and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law book" ; because, as he said, it placed "the liberty of every... | |
 | 1922 - 960 halaman
...discretion, to search suspected placee for smuggled goods, which James Otis pronounced 'the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty, and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law book,' since they placed 'the liberty of every man in the hands... | |
 | Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - 1922 - 360 halaman
...hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is. It appears to me the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that was ever found in an English law book. I must, therefore, beg your honors' patience and attention... | |
 | 1922 - 1052 halaman
...Chamber general warrants that were used in England. They were characterized as "the worse instrument of arbitrary power. The most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law that ever was found in an English law book," since they placed "the liberty of every man in the hands... | |
 | 1926 - 1132 halaman
...to search suspected places for smuggled goods, which James Otis denounced as "the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law book" since they placed "the liberty of every man in the hands... | |
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It appears to me the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law book. 
