What might have been the result if the Supreme Court in Lochner v. New York had ruled that a state could use its police powers to protect workers' health and safety?
A) Regulators would have used their own judgment rather than uniform standards to decide whether employees were overworked.
B) States would have focused their efforts on enforcing maximum hour laws for female workers only.
C) More states would have passed and enforced maximum hour laws for both male and female workers.
D) An increasing number of employers would have agreed to eight-hour workdays.
E) Employees would have fought to work more than ten hours a day.
C
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