"pseudodebate" meaning in English

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          "text": "In Constitutional Fate, Bobbitt argues that the controversy over the legitimacy of judicial review is a pseudodebate, driven largely by a false picture of the nature of argument in constitutional law.",
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          "ref": "1998, Tom Athanasiou, Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor, page 80",
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