legalitarianadj.

1959 Western Polit. Q. 12 850 The rise of a legalitarian opposition, and the final drift of the disillusioned anarchists toward the Marxian program is high comedy in the vein of Silone.

1967 C. 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.

1970 A. 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.

1975 A. 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.

1995 Financial Post (Canada) 3 Feb. 15 Suppose Quebec does vote Yes. What would the ‘legalitarian’ argument require? That we all sit down and amend the Constitution so as to provide for Quebec's departure, but with no separation to be recognized by Canada?

1962 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 19 Mar. 15/3 The seeming indifference is to the Vice President's passionate stand, since the Los Angeles convention of 1960, for total racial legalitarianism.

1969 C. Davidson in A. Cockburn & R. 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.

1987 Forbes 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.

2006 R. Nourallah Beyond Arab Dis. v. 112 The movement was perceived as a challenge..to the legalitarianism of officialdom, with the ‘doctors of the law’ often seen as hopelessly in collusion with political authority.