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The appearance of legality of something that is not actually legal; The use of courts, police, or legal procedures to accomplish pseudolegal results..
Legal theorists began asking in the 1950s how the legal system in the GDR, characterized as it was by a one-party state armed with extraordinary powers, differed from the pseudolegality of National Socialist Germany.
One of the devices of all dictatorships is the pseudolegality of the judicial system under which the most grotesque crimes are committed.
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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Pseudolegality means The appearance of legality of something that is not actually legal; The use of courts, police, or legal procedures to accomplish pseudolegal results..
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Legal theorists began asking in the 1950s how the legal system in the GDR, characterized as it was by a one-party state armed with extraordinary powers, differed from the pseudolegality of National Socialist Germany.
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