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Heading: Ill 2d at 395) reflects the legislature's superior role in

Text: articulating public policy. In Collins v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 232 Ill. 37, 44 (1907), this court explained the proper hierarchy between the legislative and judicial branches in matters of public policy: When the sovereign power of the State has by written constitution declared the public policy of the State on a particular subject, the legislative and judicial departments of the government must accept such declaration as final. When the legislature has declared, by law, the public policy of the State, the judicial department must remain silent, and if a modification or change in such policy is desired the law-making department must be applied to, and not the judiciary, whose function is to declare the law but not to make it. See also Roanoke Agency, Inc. v. Edgar, 101 Ill. 2d 315, 327 (1984) (quoting Collins); Stroh v. Blackhawk Holding Corp., 48