Meanings
- uncountableThe use of legislation as a means of bring about equality.
They were roughly harangued and forced to practise self-criticism: Duclos confessed to 'opportunism, legalitarianism, parliamentary illusions' and promised to 'mobilise the people of France against American imperialism'.
1994, J. P. D. Dunbabin, International Relations Since 1945: A History in Two Volumes1 more example
McDougall's strictures on "universal" ethics will be not in the least alarming or objectionable if it is noted that he sometimes understands by this the possession of rights by every man "without . . . correlative responsibilities" (p. 21 in); and that throughout he means by it a thorough-going legalitarianism such as but very few, if any […]
1924, The Philosophical Review, volume 33, page 504
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