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	Benjamin Robbins Curtis Summary
		Curtis was born in 1809 in Watertown, Massachusetts.
		Curtis was appointed to the Supreme Court on 22 September 1851 by President Millard Fillmore.
		Curtis resigned in 1857 from the court because of the bitter feelings engendered by the case.
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	Benjamin Robbins Curtis
		CURTIS, Benjamin Robbins, jurist, born in Watertown, Massachusetts, 4 November 1809; died in Newport, R. I., 15 September 1874.
		In the impeachment trial of President Johnson in 1868 Judge Curtis was one of the counsel for the defense.
		Curtis held the office of U. commissioner, and as such, in 1851, returned to his master a fugitive slave named Thomas Sims, for which act he was severely denounced by the abolitionists.
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	ANDREW CURTIN - LoveToKnow Article on ANDREW CURTIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		CURTIS, GEORGE TICKNOR (18 121894), American lawyer, legal writer and constitutional historian, was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, on the 28th of November 1812.
		His brother, BENJAMIN ROBBINS CURTIS (1809-1874), also an eminent jurist, was born on the 4th of November 1809, in Watertown, Massachusetts, graduated at Harvard in 1829, studied law at Cambridge and at Northfield, Mass., where, after his admission to the bar in 1832, he practised law for two years, and then in Boston in 1834-1851.
		A Memoir of Benjamin Robbins Curtis, with Some of his Professional and Miscellaneous Papers, edited by his son Benjamin R. Curtis, was published at Boston in 1879, the Memoir being by George Ticknor Curtis.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CU/CURTIN_ANDREW.htm (816 words)

	The Supreme Court . The First Hundred Years . Biographies of the Robes . Benjamin Robbins Curtis \| PBS
		Benjamin Robbins Curtis graduated from Harvard College in 1829 and went on to study law at Harvard under Justice Joseph Story, who had just been appointed professor.
		Curtis vehemently objected, pointing out that there were African American citizens in both Northern and Southern states at the time.
		Curtis is the only justice ever to resign on a matter of principle.
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	JUSTICE BENJAMIN ROBBINS CURTIS
		Curtis was politically conservative and never sympathetic to the opponents of slavery.
		Curtis shows that fls were in fact citizens of a number of states in 1787.
		Curtis also argues that in Anglo-American law, birth has always been tied to citizenship and that allowing slavery into the territories requires allowing all of the laws of a slave society into the territories.
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	Samuel Wolcott of Shrewsbury NJ, c.1630-1687
		Benjamin and Peter Wolcott, sometimes said to have been Nathaniel's children, were sons of Peter Wolcott of Burlington.
		Benjamin and his wife, Meribah gave permission for their daughter, Susannah, to marry in 1743.
		Benjamin and Henry Willcott, and Amos Wolcott were all exempt from service with the Shrewsbury NJ militia as Quakers on payment of $3 annual tax in 1793.
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	Benjamin Robbins Curtis
		Benjamin Robbins Curtis (4 November 1809 - 15 September 1874) was an American attorney and United States Supreme Court Justice.
		Curtis resigned in 1857 to return to his legal practice.
		In 1868, He served as President Andrew Johnson's lead defense attorney during the impeachment proceedings.
	207.150.180.135 /Benjamin_Robbins_Curtis (105 words)

	Life Biography on Benjamin Robbins Curtis \| Custom Written Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1809-1874) was one of the most able lawyers on the U.S. Supreme Court in the 19th century.Benjamin Robbins Curtis was born into an old New England family in Watertown, Mass., on Nov. 4, 1809.
		When she died in 1844, he married again and had three more children.Through the influence of a prominent uncle, Curtis became a partner in a Boston law firm in 1834, remaining until 1851 and becoming one of the leading commercial lawyers in the United States.
		When President Andrew Johnson was impeached, Curtis and William M. Evarts defended him before the Senate.In 1874 Curtis suffered a brain hemorrhage and died at Newport, R.I., on September 15.
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		George Ticknor Curtis (1812-1894), a Harvard-trained lawyer, was the author of a history of the U. Constitution and more than thirty books on jurisprudence.
		His brother, Benjamin Robbins Curtis, was a Supreme Court justice from 1851 to 1857, and George Curtis's first wife, Mary Oliver Story, was the daughter of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, who served on the bench from 1812 to 1845.
		In November of 1884, several months before the inauguration, Curtis writes a twenty-nine page letter to President-elect Cleveland that offers a summation of the state of the country in the nineteen years since the end of the Civil War, giving thoughtful consideration to the causes and remedies of the conflict.
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		WILLIAM A. ROBBINS and another, 48 N.C. 339 (1856), was a case in which the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that the lower trial court did not error in their judgment thereby affirming the lower court's decision.
		ROBBINS AND A. This case was a "Civil action, tried on appeal from a judgment of a Justice of the Peace, before Coble, J., and a jury, at August Term, 1896, of Duplin Superior Court.
		The defendant Robbins was the owner of a steam sawmill and boiler, upon which defendant Williams' intestate held a mortgage.
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		Curtis, Benjamin R. A Memoir of Benjamin Robbins Curtis, LL.D. with Some of His...
		Benjamin Robbins Curtis [1809-1874], an eminent Massachusetts jurist, was appointed to the United States Supreme Court in 1851 where he achieved his greatest fame in 1857 by his dissenting opinion in the Dred Scott case.
		Curtis argued in a lengthy opinion that residence of a slave with his owner in free territory conferred freedom that the slave could vindicate on his return to slave territory.
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	The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Curtis, Benjamin R (Robbins) (1809-1874)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Although he had once argued that a slave-owner should be able to restrain his slave when temporarily in a free state, he was one of the two justices who dissented in Scott v.
		Curtis argued that Dred Scott had acquired freedom by residing in free territory.
		When Curtis published his opinion prematurely, Chief Justice Taney revised his own to counter it; Curtis thus resigned.
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	CNN - Juries role reduced in patent cases - April 23, 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At issue was whether interpretations of patent claims are matters of fact to be decided by jurors or matters of law to be decided by a judge.
		To support the decision, Souter quoted 19th century Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis, a patent expert.
		Curtis believed judges should interpret the patent itself, while jurors should decide if the patent is infringed.
	www.cnn.com /US/9604/23/scotus (212 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Robbins
		Robbins, Edward Hutchinson (1758-1837) — also known as Edward H. Robbins — of Massachusetts.
		Robbins, George Robbins (1808-1875) — of New Jersey.
		Robbins, Virgil — of Brook, Newton County, Ind. Democrat.
	www.politicalgraveyard.com /bio/robbins.html (624 words)

	A Homeland So Secure We Wouldn't Want To Live There - by Joseph Stromberg
		Curtis complained that Lincoln sought "to extend martial law over the whole territory of the United States; a power, for the exercise of which by the President, there is no warrant whatsoever in the Constitution; a power which no free people could confer upon an executive officer, and remain a free people.
		For it would make him the absolute master of their lives, their liberties, and their property, with power to delegate his mastership to his satraps as he might select, or as might be imposed on his credulity, or his fears.(1)
		Unfortunately, Curtis concedes that Congress could, in time of war, authorize many of the things about which he complains, in which case, one would think, Congress and its satraps would become "the absolute master of the [people's] lives," liberties, and property.
	www.antiwar.com /stromberg/?articleid=187 (1529 words)

	Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Encyclopedia.com
		Curtis, Benjamin Robbins 1809-74, American jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1851-57), b.
		After studying law at Harvard, he practiced at Northfield, Mass., and served in the state legislature.
		One of the nation's leading lawyers, he was chief counsel to Andrew Johnson at the President's impeachment trial.
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		Benjamin Robbins Curtis 1809–74, American jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1851–57), b.
		See biography by his son B. Curtis (1879, repr.
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	LOW
		Annie Wroe Scollay (Curtis) Low (November 29, 1847 – April 1, 1929) a trustee of Barnard College from 1890 to 1912 and wife of Columbia President Seth Low, was born in Boston, the eldest child of Benjamin Robbins Curtis and Anna Wroe Scollay Curtis.
		Benjamin Curtis (BA, Harvard, 1829; LLB, Harvard Law School, 1832) was a prominent lawyer, respected member of the Whig Party, and, from 1851 to 1857, a justice of the Supreme Court.
		Court majority by arguing that Congress had the power to ban slavery in the territories, he was not an anti-slavery advocate, and he later criticized Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation as unconstitutional.
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	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Curtis
		Curtis, C. — of Canton, Stark County, Ohio.
		Curtis, Daphne Means — of Wayne County, Mich.
		Curtis, N. — Member of Dakota territorial House of Representatives, 1863-64.
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		Robbins, a city located in Moore County, North Carolina, United States.
		Robbins, a village located in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
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	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Curtis
		Curtis, C. — of Canton, Stark County, Ohio.
		Curtis, Daphne Means — of Wayne County, Mich.
		Curtis, N. — Member of Dakota territorial House of Representatives, 1863-64.
	www.politicalgraveyard.com /bio/curtis.html (979 words)

	A Homeland So Secure We Wouldn't Want To Live There - by Joseph Stromberg
		Lincoln's critics, Benjamin Robbins Curtis, treated some of these issues in 1862.
		For it would make him the absolute master of their lives, their liberties, and their property, with power to delegate his mastership to his satraps as he might select, or as might be imposed on his credulity, or his fears.(1)
		It is hard to see why this would be superior to having Lincoln do such things, unless there is a great advantage in having a few hundred masters rather than one.
	www.antiwar.org /stromberg?articleid=187 (1489 words)

	Don E. Fehrenbacher \| The Anti-Lincoln Tradition \| Papers of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 4
		On January 1, 1863, the day of the final Emancipation Proclamation, Benjamin R. Curtis, former Supreme Court justice, said that Lincoln had been terrified and completely subdued by the antislavery radicals.
		Similarly, Charles Sumner, though often critical of Lincoln, maintained a delicate balance between friendship and opposition, whereas his senatorial colleague Benjamin F. Wade labeled the President a fool, led the radical attacks upon him in Congress, opposed his renomination, and regarded his assassination as a political blessing.
		Curtis to William Whitwell Greenough, 1 January 1863, Benjamin Robbins Curtis Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
	jala.press.uiuc.edu /4/fehrenbacher.html (6833 words)

	Dottings Round the Circle (The Nation, December 14, 1876)
		This book is a diary of college graduate's journey around the world from Boston to Boston, via the Pacific Railroad, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Suez, European railways, and a Cunard steamship.
		Although, most of the travel is by sea, yet but little is said of wind or sail, and the bulk of the space is devoted to Japan, China, and India.
		Of Europe the only facts which Curtis everywhere tells are the hours of starting and arriving of trains.
	www.thenation.com /archive/detail/14106366 (148 words)

	Lincoln’s 'Great Crime': The Arrest Warrant for the Chief Justice by Thomas DiLorenzo
		In it is the transcript of a conversation Mayor Brown had with Taney in which Taney talks of his knowledge that Lincoln had issued an arrest warrant for him.
		Yet another source is A Memoir of Benjamin Robbins Curtis, a former U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
		Judge Curtis represented President Andrew Johnson in his impeachment trial before the U.S. Senate; wrote the dissenting opinion in the Dred Scott case; and resigned from the court over a dispute with Judge Taney over that case.
	www.lewrockwell.com /dilorenzo/dilorenzo75.html (1144 words)

	Commonwealth v. Aves: 1836 - Slave Or Free?
		Name of Respondent: Thomas AvesCause of Action: Writ of habeas corpus for a slave girl, MedCommonwealth Attorneys: Ellis Gray Loring, Rufus Choate, Samuel SewallRespondent's Counsel: Benjamin Robbins Curtis, C. CurtisJudge: Lemuel ShawPlace: MassachusettsDate of Decision: 1836Verdict: Med was freed, becoming a ward of the court SIGNIFICANCE: Shaw's opinion in the Aves case establi…
		In that regard the Ayes case foreshadowed the U.S. Supreme Court's infamous Dred Scott decision of 1857.
		Lawyers for the commonwealth included Ellis Gray Loring, a prominent member of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, while Aves was represented by Benjamin Robbins Curtis, who would serve as an associate justice of the Dred Scott Court.
	law.jrank.org /pages/2461/Commonwealth-v-Aves-1836.html (405 words)

	Benjamin Robbins Curtis (The Nation, December 11, 1879)
		Benjamin Robbins Curtis (The Nation, December 11, 1879)
		Reviews the book "A Memoir of Benjamin Robbins Curtis," edited by Benjamin R. Curtis.
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