Question

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"I can see no reason to doubt but the imposition of taxes, whether on trade, or on land, or houses, or ships, on real or personal, fixed ort floating property, in the colonies is absolutely irreconcilable with the rights of the colonists as British subjects and as men. I say men, for in a state of nature no man can take my property from me without my consent: if he does, he deprives me of my liberty and makes me a slave."
—James Otis, 1763

Based on this excerpt, what do you think Otis's purpose was in writing this document?

Answer 1

Colonists who were loyal to the crown

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There you go :)

Answer 2

Colonists who were still loyal to the crown, I think.

Otis is talking about what the British had done towards the Colonists, which means he's probably speaking about loyalists.