On Tuesday, November 7th, 2006 you will have a chance to vote for legal candidates or for illegal candidates to represent you in the Illinois legislature.
In Illinois, doctors, dentists, beauticians, real estate agents, morticians, etc. are licensed to practice by the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation, an agency of the State of Illinois. These persons, just like you and me, do not take an oath of office to support the Constitution of the State of Illinois or the Constitution of the United States.
However, attorneys are not licensed by the Department of Professional Regulation. They take an oath of office to support the Constitutions of the State of Illinois and of the United States and register with the Illinois Supreme Court to practice law. Attorneys are "officers of the court" and are members of the judicial branch of government in Illinois.
Although attorneys are not state judicial officers, as are judges, they are members of, and a part of, the Illinois judicial branch of government.
The Department of Professional Regulation cannot discipline attorneys as they can licensed professionals. Only the Supreme Court has lawful authority to discipline attorneys or judges.
The Illinois Constitution divides the government into three branches: (1) the executive branch, (2) the legislative branch, and (3) the judicial branch of government.
Under the Illinois Constitution, Article II, Section 1, one branch of government cannot exercise the powers of another branch of government.
ARTICLE II-The Powers of the State
Section 1. SEPARATION OF POWERS
The legislative, executive and judicial branches are separate. No branch shall exercise powers properly belonging to another.
Why do attorneys, who by law are officers of the court and members of the judicial branch of government, violate the Illinois Constitution and unlawfully exercise the powers of the legislative branch of government?
Citizens recommends that you vote NO to any attorney running for public office, except for the position of attorney general, state's attorney, or judge.
Citizens further suggests that you inform other members of your family and your friends as to what the law is in Illinois and to vote NO to any attorney running for any political office, from which he/she is constitutionally prohibited from exercising the powers of that office.
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Created October 24, 1998 Last revised November 3, 2006