pseudo-legality

English

Noun

pseudo-legality (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of pseudolegality
    • 2003, Geoffrey Ellis, The Napoleonic Empire:
      Isser Woloch sees this as one questionable episode in the public life of modern France, 'a nation where coups clothed in pseudo-legality have repeatedly changed the rules of the game'.
    • 2012, Paul Preston, The Spanish Holocaust:
      Many executions by the military rebels were given a veneer of pseudo-legality by trials, although they were effectively little different from extra-judicial murder.
    • 2014, John W. F. Dulles, Unrest in Brazil: Political-Military Crises 1955-1964:
      Will it not also be obvious 'pseudo-legality' to have that which seeks to legitimize itself in order to defend intransigently a mechanism prepared to assure voting by the illiterates, prohibited by law?
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