Jack Hitt
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3 Jul
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Now, it does get published in London.
And, you know, like I said, this argument that Parliament is not supreme is just, you know, that is not going to sit.
I did find this.
The eminent jurist of the day was a man named Lord Mansfield, and he did offer this opinion, quote, It is said the man is mad.
People are asking some hard questions like, what do you mean Parliament is supreme?
Isn't that treason to say that?
Don't you get hung for that?
You know, these are the questions that are floating around.
Yeah.
And so how does Otis take that?
Increasingly in these newspaper articles that he writes or in these other pamphlets that are sort of the follow-ups, he starts backtracking.
He doesn't want people to think that he's not a good Brit, that he's not a loyal British citizen swearing allegiance to the king and recognizing the supremacy of parliament.
He is, after all, a politician in Massachusetts.
a British politician, he writes in one of his subsequent pamphlets, things like, of course, parliament is the supreme sovereign power.
And then he says, you know, parliament, quote, remains the supreme judge from whose final determination there is no appeal.
Wow.
So you're like, oh, wait, what happened, Otis?
Yeah.
What happened?
James, what's going on?
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