An End To Innocence

June, 2005

American patriot James Otis, arguing against royal warrants authorizing general search and seizure, stood before the Massachusetts Superior Court in 1761 "in opposition to a kind of power the exercise of which in former periods of history cost one king of England his head and another his throne." Otis was unsuccessful, and the warrants, known as writs of assistance, led a list of indignities that cost the reigning king of England his American colonies. The ultimate subversion of the pr...