coequal

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Rather, the court is an independent, coequal branch of government tasked with determining whether the government’s actions—including the president’s—are constitutional and lawful.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

Voters can hold incumbents accountable in elections — political scientists call this “vertical accountability” — as can coequal branches of government, which we call “horizontal accountability.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2025

The confrontation between two supposedly coequal branches of government has reached a critical stage.

From Salon • May 17, 2025

John Roberts, respectfully, has long ago taken the decision that he is simply one coequal vote among nine.

From Slate • May 22, 2024

Under these liberal principles, Congress, in organizing colonies, bound themselves to impart to their inhabitants all the privileges of coequal States....

From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)