Opinion ID: 3134286
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Heading: Ill 2d 282, 291 (1996); Bernier v. Burris, 113 Ill. 2d 219, 236

Text: (1986); Trexler v. Chrysler Corp., 104 Ill. 2d 26, 30 (1984). Subject only to the collective will of the voters and to the constraints of the federal and state constitutions, the legislature enjoys broad power to change the common law, and to modify and even eliminate statutory and common law rights and remedies. In People v. Gersch, 135 Ill. 2d 384, 395 (1990), this court explained, The legislature is formally recognized as having a superior position to that of the courts in establishing common law rules of decision. The Illinois General Assembly has the inherent power to repeal or change the common law, or do away with all or part of it. [Citations.] [T]his pervasive power of the legislature to alter the common law (Gersch, 135