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 law.

CNN: Our Imperial Judiciary

Both nations are democracies, albeit a more fragile and explosive one in Lebanon, where the two coequal, mutually exclusive forces of Hezbollah and Shia Muslims stand against the March 14 Coalition of Christians and Sunni Muslims.

FORBES: The Way We'll Be

Pulliam was one of the last of a breed of forceful publishers who saw their news and editorial pages as coequal platforms for their political views -- in his case, generally conservative.

FORBES: Not in the family