coequal
Example Sentences
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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
The confrontation between two supposedly coequal branches of government has reached a critical stage.
From Salon ● May 17, 2025
In time, Parliament demanded a coequal share of the power to make statutory law while the power to interpret the law and to adjudicate individual cases was increasingly delegated to law-trained judges.
From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2025
But, he said, Hill “nevertheless insisted on relegating ‘The Fugees’ billing to coequal or secondary status after her name.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2024
Madison—to mention only one of many instances—advocating ratification in the Virginia convention, called the constitution “a government of a federal nature, consisting of many coequal sovereignties.”
From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin
