In response to the market revolution:
a. the legal system worked with local governments to find better ways to regulate entrepreneurs.
b. Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that legislatures could not alter or rescind charters and contracts that previous legislatures had created.
c. local judges protected businessmen from paying property damages associated with factory construction and from workers seeking to unionize.
d. Massachusetts Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw held in Commonwealth v. Hunt that workers had no right to organize.
e. corporations proved less able to raise capital than chartered companies did.
Answer: c. local judges protected businessmen from paying property damages associated with factory construction and from workers seeking to unionize.
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