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    The posse comitatus (from the Latin for "power of the county"), frequently shortened to posse, is in common law a group of people mobilized by the conservator...
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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...
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  • The Posse Comitatus (Latin, "force of the county") is a loosely organized American far-right extremist social movement which began in the late 1960s....
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  • Look up posse comitatus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Posse comitatus is the authority of a law officer to conscript any able-bodied males to assist...
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  • la:Comitatus.) Posse comitatus ("power/force of the county"; comitatus is 4th declension so the genitive termination is ūs), usually shortened to posse,...
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  • Look up posse or Posse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Posse is a shortened form of posse comitatus, a group of people summoned to assist law enforcement...
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  • Paris Barclay (for "The Indians in the Lobby") and Alex Graves (for "Posse Comitatus") were each nominated for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series...
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    appeared in 1971 within the Posse Comitatus, as a teaching of Christian Identity minister William Potter Gale. The Posse Comitatus was a far right anti-government...
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    part of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, these provisions have since been amended. There are Constitutional exceptions to Posse Comitatus restrictions...
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  • Look up comitatus or posse comitatus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Comitatus is the Latin term for an armed escort or retinue. Comitatus may also...
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