He called her "diligent in recognizing that ours is a tripartite Government with three equal branches."

"He made the Legislature an equal branch of government with the Governor's administration."

But let's not forget that the founding fathers wisely set up three equal branches of government.

No, the senators felt constrained to object: As an equal branch of government, the Legislature expected the governor to come to it.

On two of its faces a cross with equal branches has been sculptured.

"I should retain plenary executive authority long enough to liberate the imperial judiciary into a separate but equal branch of government."

He called for an independent judiciary that would be an equal third branch of government.

Both are equal branches of government, with separate areas of responsibility, under the Constitution that I have taken an oath to support and defend.

They said it showed no respect for their status as an equal branch of Government.

The founders created three equal branches, and a Constitution setting out broad principles, at both the national and state levels.