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

Time to find out how coequal these branches really are.

From Slate • May 5, 2025

He came into the school as my coequal, but he left far above me, in a blaze of scholarships and brilliant performance.

From The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)