Word: coequal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very essentials of the way we govern ourselves. [But] I believe that these measures only restore the constitutional process to that state in which they were intended to function, and that if we are to survive and prosper as a Republic, Congress must resume its role as a coequal branch of Government...
Watergate thereby became not only an epic whodunit of daytime television but a political and constitutional struggle of historic dimensions. At stake was nothing less than the definition of presidential powers and the President's relationship to the two other, nominally coequal branches of Government. Nixon's refusal to divulge the White House records raised a constitutional question never before resolved in the republic's 197 years, a decision that might affect the conduct of Presidents yet unborn: To what extent can the Executive Branch maintain strict privacy in defiance of the other branches even if that...
...what the res publicae are, and what the rational debate on those subjects is." It is in the spirit of those words that Time Inc.'s publications, utilizing their unique resources, will this year undertake a study of the U.S. Congress, and ways of restoring that body to coequal status with the Executive Branch. At the same time we will hold a series of dinner meetings in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles, at which Senators, Representatives, civic leaders and scholars will be invited to offer their views. These meetings will lead to a final dinner in Washington...
...that Congress had acquiesced in its inferior status. "There are members of Congress who are called 'the President's men,' " says Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. "In their view, everything a President recommends is right. Everything a President does is right. Any time the Congress, a coequal branch of Government, seeks to exercise the equality granted to us under the Constitution, we are accused of engaging in adversary proceedings...
Nonetheless, many of the students have concluded that if coeducation at Yale is ever to be coequal, the male-female ratio, which has narrowed slightly to 5 to 1, must be equalized. That seems a remote possibility, though Brewster is considering some kind of reorganization to bring it closer. The main obstacle is his own promise to alumni that Yale would continue to turn out "1,000 male leaders" every year. Thus, while absorbing large numbers of women (a total of 823 this year), Yale has held male enrollment (4,000) constant-and has suffered from serious overcrowding...