legalism

The spirit of the United States Constitution and subordinate laws has been wholesale abandoned and legalism has been adopted.

The third way is by far the worse, but it's the one you're stuck with if you reject pedantic legalism.

A thin veneer of legalism in an obviously bogus patent shouldn't be enough to make one immune entirely from racketeering charges.

Once the empire was united, there wasn't as much need for Legalism and it was beaten out by the much nicer Confucianism.

Since your comments consistently resort to legalism, how do you resolve that conundrum?

Edit: How effectively they can cloak themselves in legalism is beside the point.

Having been in multiple combat zones, I think the US military errs too much on the side of legalism.

Since GP was not arguing for that nuance I'm gonna call your distinction between homicide and capital-M Murder a legalism.

I definitely support curtailing this nonsense legalism that has also led us to click through 100 pages of incomprehensible TOS documents.

I'm not sure why some technologists have such a fascination with legalism.

I think that sort of legalism is unhelpful, especially at Wikipedia.

That is /seriously/ using God's name in vain.) I was somewhat under the impression that a lot of the insane over-zealous legalism of 'modern' protestant Christianity was at least somewhat since the Victorian era.

The go to source of meaning for Anglo legalism in the late 19th century was Blackstone's "Commentaries on the Laws of England".

Pedantic legalism aside, arguing that the founders of the American republic saw morality as nationally rather than divinely circumscribed ("under God") is shockingly wrong.

> Apparently the times of legalism were around 3rd century BCE, and then "In later dynasties, Legalism was discredited and ceased to be an independent school of thought." Thankfully.

To the point that they see the "legalism" expressed in his comments as not only absurd but also insulting to the very notion of justice.

The Chinese experimented with strict enforcement in the Qin Dynasty, following the philosophy of Han Feizi (Legalism).

One book that addresses these problems well is Robert Kagan's Adversarial Legalism.