During the Warring States period of China, the Qin—through its Legalistic policies—placed considerable focus on the enhancement of state wealth and military power, also known with the expression Fuguo Qiangbing.
The Preface, composed by Zhu Yuanzhang himself, admonishes his descendants to exert a strict legalist government.
This "sense of shame" is an internalization of duty, where the punishment precedes the evil action, instead of following it in the form of laws as in Legalism.
Liberal legalism, a theory on the relationship between politics and law
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Massi, Jeri, The Lambs Workbook: Recovering from Church Abuse, Clergy Abuse, Spiritual Abuse, and the Legalism of Christian Fundamentalism (2008)
In this essay, Sima Tan speaks of six philosophical lineages or "schools" (家 jia): Confucianism (儒家 Rujia), Daoism (道家 Daojia), Legalism (法家 Fajia), Mohism (墨家 Mojia), School of Names (名家 Mingjia), and School of Naturalists (陰陽家 Yinyang jia) – the central figure of this last "school" being Zou Yan.