Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The life, times, and political writings
  • Part 1. The writs of assistance case
  • John Adams's notes on the first argument of the case, February 1761
  • Josiah Quincy Jr.'s notes on the second argument of the case, November 1761
  • John Adams's reconstruction of Otis's speech in the writs of assistance case
  • Essay on the writs of assistance case, Boston gazette, January 4, 1762
  • A sample writ of assistance
  • Part 2. Massachusetts politics, 1761-63
  • Essays from the Boston gazette, December 21, 1761 [and others]
  • A vindication of the conduct of the House of Representatives of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay
  • Part 3. The imperial crisis, 1764-67
  • The rights of the British colonies asserted and proved
  • A vindication of the British colonies
  • Brief remarks on the defence of the Halifax libel on the British-American-colonies
  • The Boston gazette, May 13, 1765
  • Considerations on behalf of the colonists. in a letter to a Noble lord
  • The Boston gazette, August 19 and 26, 1765, responding to criticisms of Noble lord
  • John Hampden to William Pym essays from the Boston gazette, December 9, 1765 [and others]
  • Freeborn American/freeborn Armstrong essays in the Boston gazette, January 27, 1766 [and others]
  • November 1767 essay in the Boston gazette.