Published on July 5, 2007 – Michigan Privatization Report
Published on June 26, 2007 – Study
Published on May 30, 2007 – Study
Published on March 15, 2007 – Study
Published on March 1, 2007 – Study
The arguments both for and against the OFIS rulings indicate that these decisions involve a genuine policy debate — something that should, under the Michigan Constitution, be decided in the Legislature.
… morePublished on Jan. 1, 2007 – Viewpoint on Public Issues
Regulatory takings occur when the government enacts a regulation or law that diminishes the value of the property but does not take ownership.
… morePublished on Dec. 4, 2006 – Viewpoint on Public Issues
Published on Oct. 30, 2006
Proposal 4 of 2006, which will appear on the November ballot, is a proposed state constitutional amendment that would alter state law regarding eminent domain, the legal theory that permits the government to take private
property for public use if the government pays just compensation.
… morePublished on Oct. 5, 2006 – Study
Published on Aug. 10, 2006
While federal reform efforts have stalled, Michigan residents are well placed to prevent the government from cynically confiscating the property where they live, work and worship.
… morePublished on July 3, 2006 – Viewpoint on Public Issues
America’s Founders created a system of government designed to protect property rights. The Founders were influenced by the 17th century philosopher John Locke, who held that everyone who labored had a natural right to property. Property rights, he wrote, reward effort and reduce conflict. Preserving “lives, liberties, and estates” is “the great and chief end” of government.
… morePublished on June 28, 2006 – Special Items
A Mackinac Center “friend of the court” filing to the Michigan Supreme Court in a case involving the Michigan Public Service Commission’s renewable-energy surcharge on electrical bills.
… morePublished on June 19, 2006 – Study
Agencies and commissions have become so used to having free reign that they broadly construe their mission even where the Legislature only gives a particular agency or commission a limited task.
… morePublished on June 5, 2006 – Viewpoint on Public Issues
A Mackinac Center “friend of the court” filing to the Michigan Court of Appeals in a case involving the preferential sale of state land.
… morePublished on Jan. 13, 2006 – Study
Congress has effectively entered into land-use regulation, a domain traditionally left to state and local government. Worse, Congress delegated its authority to the Army Corps of
Engineers, whose employees, whatever their expertise, never face the crucible of an election.
… morePublished on Jan. 3, 2006 – Viewpoint on Public Issues
Published on Dec. 15, 2005 – Michigan Education Report
A Mackinac Center “friend of the court” filing to the U.S. Supreme Court in two cases involving federal wetlands regulation of Michigan properties.
… morePublished on Dec. 2, 2005 – Study
Published on Dec. 1, 2005
Published on Oct. 27, 2005
Published on Sept. 14, 2005
Published on Sept. 12, 2005
The court’s ruling now exposes Great Lakes waterfront landowners to new risks and intrusions. Do the landowners have a duty to make the area beneath the high-water mark safe for walkers or wheelchair users? Can people fish all day below the high-water mark?
… morePublished on Sept. 7, 2005 – Viewpoint on Public Issues
Published on Aug. 22, 2005
Published on July 12, 2005
Published on June 23, 2005
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