OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 30580

night watchman state

Meanings (ES + gloss)
estado vigilante nocturno
Government that is limited to a bare minimum of functions, usually just military, police, and courts.
For these neoLiberal^([sic]) Democrats of the Orange Book school remain determined to junk social liberalism for economic liberalism. Their guiding light is the Gladstonian ideal o…
The doctrines of conservative liberalism were propounded by the late nineteenth century's leading intellectual proponents of the night watchman state.
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