of useful information that private citizens might otherwise provide. This is a significant countervailing reason against attributing MPC’s lobbying activity to the government. MPC’s lobbying activities were the typical actions of a private individual or corporation that seeks to tell lawmakers what it wants or needs from government; such lobbying activities, whether an aid or a hindrance to good governance, are not “state action” implicating individual constitutional rights. Having rejected the plaintiffs’ federal constitutional claims, we turn to the plaintiffs’ state constitutional claims. Like the United States Constitution, the Montana Constitution protects individual rights from government action, not private action. See, e.g., State v. Long, 216 Mont. 65, 700 P.2d 153, 157 (1985) (<HOLDING>); Gulbrandson v. Carey, 272 Mont. 494, 901 P.2d
holding that the fourth amendment protects property as well as privacy holding in accordance with wellestablished constitutional principles that the montana constitutions privacy right protects against state action only holding that the montana constitution protects water rights against unreasonable state action  holding that constitutional right of privacy does not apply to medical records holding that montana constitutions equal protection clause protects against arbitrary and discriminate state action 