English-Portuguese translations for legalism

• legalismo
  Legalismo face ao imperialismo. Our legalism is up against their imperialism.
  Desta forma, depois de ter corrido o risco de morrer, no passado, às mãos do nacionalismo, do fascismo e do comunismo, hoje, a Europa corre o risco de morrer às mãos do legalismo.In this way, after in the past having risked dying of nationalism, fascism and communism, today Europe risks dying of legalism.
  Trata-se do pior tipo de legalismo míope e absurdo e não está de acordo com o exemplo dado anteriormente, na Europa, pela legislação britânica em matéria de relações raciais. This is absurd, blinkered legalism at its worst and does no credit to the lead in Europe that UK race relations legislation has previously given.

Definition of legalism

• A school of thought, originating in ancient China during the w:Warring States|Warring States period and officially adopted during the w:Qin dynasty|Qin dynasty, advocating rule of law as key to ensuring social stability

Related words

• legalisation
• legalise
• legalistic
• legalist
• illegalism