Even a despised Congress, for example, needs to be treated with a certain deference, owing to its status and power as a coequal branch.
Our framers wisely gave us a constitutional system of checks and balances, with three coequal branches.
There are supposed to be coequal branches of government.
The courts are one of the three coequal branches of the federal government, and include:
Marshall is best known among constitutional historians as the man who almost single-handedly made the Supreme Court a coequal branch of the federal government.
The genius of the American system is that the founders carefully balanced power among three coequal branches.
Once executive privilege is asserted, coequal branches of the Government are set on a collision course.
Congress, as one of the three coequal branches of government, is ascribed significant powers by the Constitution.
They are a coequal branch of government, they can do that if they want to.
As one of three coequal branches of government, the Congress has played an important role in the growth of this nation.