Abstract
A MONG American patriots who awakened resistance to parliamentary taxation during period from 1760 to 1766, James Otis has been named first, as the most conspicuous, most ardent and influential, by his contemporary, John Adams.' While this judgment has no doubt been basis for many later estimates of importance of Otis to American Revolution, Adams's writings do not show a complete understanding of Otis' political instability during these years, nor does he give a satisfactory account of it. Otis was suspected of bribery in his own day, and was then exonerated of suspicion. That he was nevertheless a recreant on most fundamental American constitutional issues
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