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-Abolitionism is not a household world which we are using every day. Some of us may be familiar with it, but some are certainly not, and one proof of the widespread unfamiliarity is the fact that even when we stumble over a text that uses the word it is more often than never being misspelled as absolutionism, abulitionism or the like. In other words: it is completely legitimate to ask the question: what exactly does this word mean, where does it come from, and why is it important to know?
+== The Concept ==
+Abolitionism refers to a system of ideas (and, possibly, a political programme and a social movement) that argues in favour of the elimination of a legal institution that is seen as a contradiction to fundamental values.
-== The Concept ==
-The term goes back to ancient Roman times. In Latin the verb abolēre (aboleō) means: to do away with something, and to do so  completely, wholly. To nullify, and that is also the meaning of the present-day English verb "to abolish" - and of its equivalents in today's Roman languages, like, e.g., abolir, abolire ...
+challenges the moral justification of a (repressive) legal institution, argues for its elimination, and/or  such as slavery, the death penalty, and/or to a movement which strives to do away with it, i.e. to abolish it.
+striving to abolish While ''abolitionism'' in the sense of a movement The term is rooted in Roman Law, where the ''abolitio'' was a legal institution part of the legal terminologytimes, when goes back to ancient Roman times. In Latin the verb abolēre (aboleō) means: to do away with something, and to do so  completely, wholly. To nullify, and that is also the meaning of the present-day English verb "to abolish" - and of its equivalents in today's Roman languages, like, e.g., abolir, abolire ...
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 The noun abolitio was used in Roman law. It meant something like "wiping out a criminal prosecution against somebody before a verdict was spoken". In other words, the lifting of criminal prosecution during the process.