Jack Hitt
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849 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3 Jul
Jack Hitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that's the word they always used.
The law of parliament is supreme.
So here he is saying this right to privacy and these British rights in general predate parliament or any government.
It's certainly older than any of Parliament's mealy laws.
Well, the judges must have been floored.
But, you know, the merchants in the room, they were moved.
They thought, hey, you know, we were just trying to wiggle out of some smuggling fees.
But now we're practically the knights of the roundtable in the court of King Arthur.
There was really only one young guy who frantically scribbled down everything that he could get down on paper before it was all over.
25-year-old, freshly minted lawyer, John Adams.
Wow.
He's not only the scholar and the intellectual, but Adams, he kept his diaries.
He's kind of the minutes taker of the entire revolution.
I mean, we have his commentary on just about everything.
And in fact, here, he famously writes a little later, Otis was a flame of fire.
Every man of an immense crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take arms against writs of assistance.
Later, he swoons a little bit and he says, and this is this very famous line about this little moment, then and there, the child independence was born.
Later, Hutchinson writes his own little memoir and remembers that, you know, basically all the troubles in the colonies stem back to this time and remembers that Otis, before this speech, Otis swore to him that he would, quote, set the province in flames.
You know, this is three years after the speech when this pamphlet comes out.
So he's taken this idea of like these natural rights, these British liberties, these inherent rights that predate government, and he's kind of pulling it all together.
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