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

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

There can be no success in this that will be coequal with the other; nor a coequal grandeur.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 by Various