, the Supreme Court Decided That

, the Supreme Court decided that

A) laws limiting the number of hours that employees could work in hazardous situations unconstitutionally deprived those employees of the opportunity to enter freely into contracts.
B) the Fourteenth Amendment was intended to protect the rights of African Americans from disenfranchisement and discrimination, and had no bearing on workplace relations.
C) the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection under the law required state governments to regulate the workplace to maintain safe conditions for laborers.
D) state governments had to abide by the regulatory guidelines established by the federal government.
E) the federal government's authority over interstate commerce included the power to regulate intrastate manufacturing.