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

It also makes sense that they have a level of independence, though the president has control over them within the constraints that were designed by Congress, as a coequal branch of the government.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2025

Its success depended, therefore, upon various commanders regarded as coequal, acting as colleagues rather than as principals and subordinates.

From The Battle of Blenheim by Belloc, Hilaire