Definition of "laicism"

In a speech in commemoration of the 67th anniversary of the insertion of the principle of laicism into the Turkish constitution, he gave the following ideal typical Kemalist account of laicism: National sovereignty is grounded in the foundation of laicism.

2010, L. Cady, Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age, page 124

As a matter of fact the Enlightment culture was based on a philosophy inspired to an ethical laicism whose aim was to create a better society based on principles such as solidarity, equality of rights and duties, and full freedom.

2012, Francesca Valensise, From Building Fabric to City Form: Reconstruction in Calabria at end of Eighteenth Century‎, Gangemi Editore spa, page 8