Word: coequality
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...confirmation vote was the last major act of the remarkable 93rd Congress, which adjourns this week. It will be remembered chiefly not for landmark legislation but for dealing with the greatest constitutional crisis in U.S. history and for taking steps to restore the Legislative Branch as more nearly coequal to the Executive in power and public respect. Such an outcome seemed wildly improbable when the 93rd took office on Jan. 3, 1973, for then even some of its members questioned whether the seemingly docile body could ever rouse itself and shake off domination by the increasingly powerful White House...
...knows more," is the often voiced sentiment). The office, having reached out to meet the crisis of the 1930s, then a world war, and finally the cold war with its threat of apocalypse, has grown so huge that it dominates and distorts a Government built upon the principle of coequal branches...
...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...