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  • Every one with this writ may be a tyrant in a legal manner, also may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

    "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.
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