MARSHALL,JOHN AND THE SUGAR-TRUST - REPLY

In a revisionist effort Howard Gillman finds that Chief Justice Marsha ll despite his and the Founders' widely recognized concern for nationa l interests-was in fact responsible for the Knight states-rights disas ter in 1895. In my view nothing Marshall said or did supports the revi sionist view-indeed much of what he said and did repudiates it. I sugg est that dual federalism, the doctrine on which Knight turns, was a co ncoction of the plantation South to thwart Marshall's and the Founders ' well-known nationalism. I suggest further that this concoction was p art of the ''lost cause''-until the 1890s when business lawyers adopte d it for their own anti-federal-regulation purposes. The result was Kn ight.