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legalism
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Legalism , in the Western sense, is an approach to the analysis of legal questions characterized by abstract logical reasoning focusing on the applicable legal text, such as a constitution , legislation , or case law , rather than on the social , economic ...
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n. 1 A philosophy of focusing on the text of written law to the exclusion of the intent of law, elevating strict adherence to law over justice, mercy, grace and common sense. 2 A legal axiom; a statement couched as a proverb expressing a rule of law.
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Legalism \Le"gal*ism\ (l[=e]"gal*[i^]z'm), n. Strictness, or the doctrine of strictness, in conforming to law.
Usage examples of legalism.
It had no lexicon of legalisms extracted from the law reports in which judicial usage lies in a world apart from the ordinary affairs of life.
This old-Testament legalism determined to forever prevent Europe from rising again out of the general defeat of the First World War and from re-conquering the world domain which belongs to it by virtue of its strength of will, its organizatory ability, its necessity of self-expression, its irrepressible instinct, its Destiny and its Faith.
Legalist-Confucian amalgam was that legalism was liked by rulers and Confucianism by bureaucrats.
But, Your Honor, she is of age, after all, a consenting adult-' DON'T BULLSHIT ME WITH LEGALISMS, PORTNOY.
It prevented bruised feelings, and it allowed for local compromises, which any champion knew were often a truer path to justice than cold, unparsed legalism.