"pseudolegality" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "2003, Peter C. Caldwell, Dictatorship, State Planning, and Social Theory in the German Democratic Republic, page 12",
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          "ref": "2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, page 87",
          "text": "One of the devices of all dictatorships is the pseudolegality of the judicial system under which the most grotesque crimes are committed.",
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          "ref": "2015, Peter Hayes, How Was It Possible?: A Holocaust Reader",
          "text": "In this phase when the National Socialist regime was still attempting to consolidate its power, the pseudolegality of the entire procedure was both an essential feature of totalitarian rule and an aspect in keeping with the unavoidable consideration given to the foreign policy situation and the attitude of the majority of the population.",
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