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Benjamin Robbins Curtis war ein amerikanischer Jurist und Richter am Obersten Gerichtshof der Vereinigten Staaten. Er gab im Fall Dred Scott v. Sandford ein Sondervotum ab und trat aus Protest gegen das von ihm moralisch abgelehnte Urteil der Mehrheit unter Roger B. Taney vom Amt zurück.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis (November 4, 1809 – September 15, 1874) was an American lawyer and judge who served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1851 to 1857. Curtis was the first and only Whig justice of the Supreme Court, and he was the first Supreme Court justice to have a formal law degree.
Learn about the life and career of Benjamin R. Curtis, who served on the Supreme Court from 1851 to 1857. Find out how he became a reformer, a dissenter, and a critic of the Fugitive Slave Act and the Dred Scott decision.
Benjamin R. Curtis was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1851–57). Curtis graduated from Harvard College, studied at the Harvard Law School, and took over the practice of a country attorney in Northfield, Massachusetts, in 1831. He quickly gained a reputation at the Boston.
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29. Mai 2018 · Benjamin Robbins Curtis served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1851 to 1857. A native of Massachusetts, Curtis wrote a famous dissent in dred scott v. sandford, 60 U.S. 393, 15 L. Ed. 691 (1857), a case that upheld the legitimacy of slavery and denied free African Americans U.S. citizenship.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis of Massachusetts generally rates high marks for his six-year tenure on the Supreme Court. His bold dissent in dred scott v. sandford (1857), followed by his dramatic resignation, largely accounts for his reputation. Yet Curtis's contributions to the development of constitutional law transcend that one case.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis war ein amerikanischer Jurist und Richter am Obersten Gerichtshof der Vereinigten Staaten. Er gab im Fall Dred Scott v. Sandford ein Sondervotum ab und trat aus Protest gegen das von ihm moralisch abgelehnte Urteil der Mehrheit unter Roger B. Taney vom Amt zurück.
