Attorney General of Michigan Ex Rel. Kies v. Lowrey
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN. The facts are stated in the opinion. While the State has the right, through its legislature, to mold and fashion the policy of its institutions, create or destroy municipalities, grant them charters, modify, .amend or repeal those charters, define their powers," restrict those powers or take them, away, the right of local self-government by these municipalities and local institutions is an absolute and vested right which…
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN. The facts are stated in the opinion. While the State has the right, through its legislature, to mold and fashion the policy of its institutions, create or destroy municipalities, grant them charters, modify, .amend or repeal those charters, define their powers," restrict those powers or take them, away, the right of local self-government by these municipalities and local institutions is an absolute and vested right which the State cannot take away.' The act establishing school districts as municipalities preceded the adoption of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
The constitution of the State of Michigan requires the legislature to establish and provide a-system of public schools, whereby a school shall be kept open at least three months in each year in every school district in the State. In fulfillment of this requirement legislation was enacted from time to time providing for the formation of school districts. Under this legislation (1881) four school districts were organized in the townships of Somerset and Moscow, county of Hillsdale. In 1901 the legislature passed an act known as “Act Number 315' of the Local Acts of the State of Michigan for the…
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