Antilegalism

Near-synonym: nonlegalism

In this coinage of the great apostle extremes meet; legalism and antilegalism; legalism in so far as it implies that God, as the Judaists contended demanded righteousness from all, antilegalism in so fare as it implies that the righteousness which God demands he at the same time bestows.

Understanding antilegalism in this manner helps us to read French legal dramas in a different way.

For many commentatiors, antilegalism is a characteristic trait of Hegelianism, which thus finds itself far from the dominant opinion within postrevolutionary political philosophy, which saw rights as the inalienable condition of political freedom.

Those symbols and images of acts of civil disobedience that can turn a nation toward a better and more moral future path, in turn, merged seamlessly with the near mythic antilegalism of our Consitution, and its First and Fourteenth Amendments that target oppresive and discriminatory law, to eventually feed a narrative of civil rights as not only birthed by disobedience but as being in toto antithetical to law, and aligned instead with consitutionalism's most non-civic and atomistic inclinations.