Attorney General ex rel. Common Council v. Marx

There is no public activity which more intimately affects the welfare of the community than that of its schools and means of education. As in all the communities of our State, the citizens of the city of Detroit have been keenly alive to the necessity of safeguarding and improving the education of their children. As a result, after years of agitation and discussion, a law providing for the present small school board to control and dominate educational matters was adopted. It is imperatively necessary, in order that this work can be carried on, that the legal status of this board be finally…