Harrison v. Civil Service Commission

Schwartz, J.,

specially concurring:

The limitation on the power of courts in cases of this character stems from the constitutional division of the powers of government into three departments— legislative, judicial and executive, as provided by Article 3 of the Illinois Constitution. That article further provides that no person or collection of persons, being one of these departments, shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others, except as may be otherwise provided for by the constitution. In City of Aurora v. Schoeberlein, 230 Ill. 496 (opinion by Mr. Justice Cartwright),…