Webhowever, in letters to friends, curtis mentioned that he resigned largely because his salary was too small and did not allow him to support his family. Curtis left the court on. Webon the territorial question, this article offers a new explanation of curtis's argument by showing that he relied mainly on constitutional structure to justify broad powers in. Webbenjamin 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. Webjustice curtis in the civil war era. During a career as both a lawyer and a supreme court justice, benjamin r. Curtis addressed practically every major constitutional question of. Webcurtis is best known for being one of two supreme court justices that dissented in dred scott v. In his dissent, he argued against the. Webcurtis's defense of the president argued that johnson was not an acting president, as some claimed, and that the tenure of office act unduly interfered with the president's.
