 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1989 - 1336 pages
...psychic and related sciences may bring means of exploring unexpressed beliefs, thoughts and emotions. " That places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer " was said by James Otis of much lesser intrusions than these.1 To Lord Camden, a far slighter intrusion... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1990 - 1178 pages
...dissenting slavery on the one hand, and villany on the other, as this writ of assistance is. ... ". . . It is a power, that places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer. . . . ". . . No Acts of Parliament can establish such a writ; though it should be made in the very... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...the same manner I rely on it that the writ prayed for in this petition, being general, is illegal. It is a power that places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer. I say I admit that special writs of assistance, to search special places, may be granted to certain... | |
 | Richard M Battistoni - 2000 - 198 pages
...the same manner I rely on it, that the writ prayed for in this petition, being general, is illegal. It is a power, that places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer. I say I admit that special writs of assistance, to search special places, may be granted to certain... | |
 | 1910 - 538 pages
...James Otis in defence of the liberties of the people and against the Writs of Assistance that placed the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer by giving a general right of search, can now only be given in the words of John Adams. He divides the... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 2002 - 680 pages
...the same manner I rely on it, that the writ prayed for in this petition, being general, is illegal. It is a power, that places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer. I say I admit that special writs of assistance, to search special places, may be granted to certain... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 460 pages
...the same manner I rely on it, that the writ prayed for in this petition, being general, is illegal. It is a power that places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer. I say I admit that special writs of assistance, to search special places, may be granted to certain... | |
 | James R. Acker, David C. Brody - 2004 - 1342 pages
...the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law book," because they placed "the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer." The historic occasion of that denunciation, in 1761 at Boston, has been characterized as "perhaps the... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - 2007 - 1236 pages
...the same manner I rely on it, that the writ prayed for in this petition, being general, is illegal. . I say I admit that special Writs of Assistance, to search special places, may be granted to certain... | |
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It is a power that places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer. 
