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The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152) signed on June 18, 1878, by President Rutherford B. Hayes that limits the powers of the federal government in the use of federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States.
The posse comitatus (from the Latin for "power of the county"), frequently shortened to posse, is in common law a group of people mobilized to suppress lawlessness, defend the people, or otherwise protect the place, property, and public welfare.
The Posse Comitatus (Latin, "force of the county") [1] is a loosely organized American far-right extremist social movement which began in the late 1960s. Its members spread a conspiracy-minded, anti-government, and antisemitic message linked to white supremacy aiming to counter what they believe is an attack on their social and political rights as white Christians.
Posse comitatus is the authority of a law officer to conscript any able-bodied males to assist him. Posse comitatus may also refer to: Posse Comitatus (organization) , a loosely organized far-right social movement that opposes the United States federal government and believes in localism
Posse comitatus ("power/force of the county"; comitatus is 4th declension so the genitive termination is ūs), usually shortened to posse, is a group of people helping a sheriff or other official representing the county to enforce the law.
The United States' Posse Comitatus Act, passed in 1878, prohibits any part of the Army or the Air Force (since the U.S. Air Force evolved from the U.S. Army) from engaging in domestic law enforcement activities unless they do so pursuant to lawful authority. Similar prohibitions apply to the Navy and Marine Corps by service regulation, since ...
Comitatus may refer to: Comitatus (warband), a Germanic warband who follow a leader; Comitatus, the office of a Roman or Frankish comes, translated as count. Comitatus, translated as county, a territory such as governed by medieval counts. Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), counties in the Kingdom of Hungary; Comitatenses, armies of the late Roman ...
Posse comitatus, the "citizen enforcer" band is either capable of acting lawfully as an exceptional agent of justice; or it is in danger of deteriorating into lawlessness which is motivated by populist malice; Presumption of guilt; Public humiliation; Real-life superhero, groups of vigilantes who wear comic book style costumes