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legalitarian, a.|ˌliːgælɪˈteərɪən|
[Blend of legality n. and egalitarian a. and n.]
Favouring legislation as the best means of bringing about greater social equality.
1967C. Seton-Watson Italy from Liberalism to Fascism v. 189 For ten months he preached insurrection and campaigned vigorously against the Socialist party's legalitarian degeneration. 1970A. M. Bickel Supreme Court & Idea of Progress iv. 108 Another of the principal themes of the Warren Court, related to the egalitarian, legalitarian, and centralizing themes, was majoritarianism. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Mar. 226/1 Spitting upon the conservative, legalitarian aspirations of the former nationalist leaders in the [Italian Fascist] party. 1975A. M. Bickel Morality of Consent i. 8 His vision was of a legalitarian society. He was a judicial activist, quick to regulate what seemed disordered and unruly.
Hence legaliˈtarianism n.
1969C. Davidson in Cockburn & Blackburn Student Power 352 We should avoid getting bogged down in ‘legalitarianism’. We cannot count on this society's legal apparatus to guarantee our civil liberties. 1987Forbes (N.Y.) 1 June 112/2 Liberal politics and a willingness to judicialize them—the heady brew once described by..Professor Alexander Bickel as ‘legalitarianism’ or legal egalitarianism. |