After the Great Depression,in response to unprecedented economic distress,President Roosevelt sought to redefine the very nature of the employer/employee relationship.The laws initially ran into stiff opposition at the Supreme Court because:
A)the financial payoffs would not be worth the change.
B)these laws,if passed,would have negatively affected the trade between the United States and the other countries.
C)these laws were based on a more formalistic reading of Article I,Section 8.
D)the employers opposed these changes.
E)the justices at the time saw the employer/employee relationship as one governed by freedom of contract.

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The passage mentions that the Supreme Court initially opposed the laws because the justices at the time saw the employer/employee relationship as one governed by freedom of contract. This suggests that choice E is the best answer as it directly addresses the reason for the opposition.

After the Great Depression,in Response to Unprecedented Economic Distress,President Roosevelt