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in my mind illegally downloading something from the Internet is coequal to stealing from a store
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As the Constitution outlines, the U.S. has three distinct and coequal branches of government: a legislature that passes laws, an executive branch that implements them, and a judiciary that interprets them.
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David Bernhardt, wsj.com, 9 May 2023
Our system of coequal branches of executive, legislative and judicial government designed to provide checks and balances without which our democracy does not work — was eroding over time, and the Citizens United ruling accelerated the erosion to the point where the system is massively broken.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2022
Judge Roslynn Mauskopf, head of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, said that the federal judiciary’s policy-making body—called the Judicial Conference of the U.S.—strives to find a balance between coequal branches of government in regular contacts with Congress.
—Coulter Jones, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2021
The extension was approved on strict party lines as Democrats said that Lamont has been doing a solid job in prudent fashion during an ongoing health crisis, while Republicans said the full legislature has been ignored and disregarded as a coequal branch of government.
—Christopher Keating, courant.com, 30 Mar. 2021
For much of the American public and for the historical record, the second impeachment of former President Donald J. Trump represented a blistering censure from a coequal branch of government whose members’ lives had been imperiled days earlier by a mob of his supporters attacking the Capitol.
—New York Times, 27 Jan. 2021
By the last stages of the book, one patient in particular, the gregarious Tony (a pseudonym), has become nearly a coequal character to O’Connell.
—Richard Just, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
These findings have challenged the conventional view of forests as a mere population of trees: Trees and fungi are, in fact, coequal players on the ecological stage, scientists say.
—Gabriel Popkin, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2022
Members of Congress Made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives, which together are theoretically coequal to the presidency, Congress is tasked with making laws on our behalf.
—Karim Doumar, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2022
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David Bernhardt, wsj.com, 9 May 2023
Our system of coequal branches of executive, legislative and judicial government designed to provide checks and balances without which our democracy does not work — was eroding over time, and the Citizens United ruling accelerated the erosion to the point where the system is massively broken.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2022
Judge Roslynn Mauskopf, head of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, said that the federal judiciary’s policy-making body—called the Judicial Conference of the U.S.—strives to find a balance between coequal branches of government in regular contacts with Congress.
—Coulter Jones, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2021
The extension was approved on strict party lines as Democrats said that Lamont has been doing a solid job in prudent fashion during an ongoing health crisis, while Republicans said the full legislature has been ignored and disregarded as a coequal branch of government.
—Christopher Keating, courant.com, 30 Mar. 2021
For much of the American public and for the historical record, the second impeachment of former President Donald J. Trump represented a blistering censure from a coequal branch of government whose members’ lives had been imperiled days earlier by a mob of his supporters attacking the Capitol.
—New York Times, 27 Jan. 2021
By the last stages of the book, one patient in particular, the gregarious Tony (a pseudonym), has become nearly a coequal character to O’Connell.
—Richard Just, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
These findings have challenged the conventional view of forests as a mere population of trees: Trees and fungi are, in fact, coequal players on the ecological stage, scientists say.
—Gabriel Popkin, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2022
Members of Congress Made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives, which together are theoretically coequal to the presidency, Congress is tasked with making laws on our behalf.
—Karim Doumar, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2022
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First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of coequal was
in the 14th century
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“Coequal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coequal. Accessed 23 Sep. 2023.
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