Word: coequals
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...that label. For example, the Administration claimed executive privilege in substance while blocking disclosure of what was discussed during meetings of Vice President Dick Cheney's taskforce on energy. The Supreme Court upheld the Administration's claim in 2004, with Justice Anthony Kennedy warning that executive privilege can set "coequal branches of the government... on a collision course...
...increasing fraction of the world population is enjoying a measure of significant economic progress. People are living longer. Rates of infant mortality are on the decline. More people have access to adequate facilities for health care and education. And, perhaps most important, women are assuming their rightful roles as coequal partners in society...
...legislature, it can raise no revenues. Unlike the executive, it commands no police forces. Its power rests entirely on people's belief in its legitimate authority. But that belief can--and should--be forfeited when courts do what the Florida Supreme Court has done: wantonly usurp their two coequal branches, denying both the plain language of a law and the plain authority of the official elected to administer that...