• Mitchell and Fred C. Robinson describe the comitatus more fully: A heroic warrior brought up in this [comitatus] tradition would show a reckless disregard...
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    sufficient bipartisan support to pass what became the Posse Comitatus Act. The original Posse Comitatus Act referred exclusively to the United States Army. The...
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    peace, and had the posse comitatus called out to expel them. The powers of sheriffs in England and Wales for posse comitatus were codified by section...
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  • Look up comitatus or posse comitatus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Comitatus is a Latin term for an armed escort or retinue. Comitatus may also refer...
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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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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hemigomphus comitatus. Dow, R.A. (2017). "Hemigomphus comitatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T14278064A59256723...
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  • Comitatenses (redirect from Sacer comitatus)
    the Latin nominative plural of comitatensis, an adjective derived from comitatus ('company, party, suite'; in this military context it came to the novel...
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    19 Abaúj (Latin: comitatus Abaujvariensis, Slovak: Abov, German: Neuburg or Abaujwar) is a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of...
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    County (German: Komitat Maramuresch; Hungarian: Máramaros vármegye; Latin: Comitatus Maramarosiensis; Romanian: Comitatul Maramureș; Rusyn: Комітат Марамарош;...
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    or rebellion. The act provides a "statutory exception" to the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which limits the use of military personnel under federal...
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  • the regional comitatus (mobile field armies). There, however, they continued to enjoy higher status and pay than the rest of the comitatus regiments. At...
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  • Barclay (for "The Indians in the Lobby") and Alex Graves (for "Posse Comitatus") were each nominated for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, and...
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    assistance from the comitatus. Limitanei regiments often joined the comitatus for specific campaigns, and were sometimes retained by the comitatus long-term with...
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    of Urgell (Catalan: Comtat d'Urgell, IPA: [komˈtad duɾˈdʒeʎ]; Latin: Comitatus Urgellensis) is one of the historical Catalan counties, bordering on the...
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  • The iudiciaria Torrensis, also known as fines Torrenses, comitatus Toresianus or Torresana, was a Carolingian district of north-west Italy which is referred...
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    their armed forces are totally prohibited from doing so by the Posse Comitatus Act. The Act, which reserves to Congress the power to employ federal military...
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    The dusky-blue flycatcher (Bradornis comitatus) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It has a wide range of presence across the African tropical...
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    county, comitatus, is sometimes used in English. Royal county: (between 11th-13th century) Latin parochia / provincia / compagus civitatis / comitatus /mega...
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    Franche-Comté (UK: /ˌfrɒ̃ʃ kɒ̃ˈteɪ/, US: /- koʊnˈ-/; French: [fʁɑ̃ʃ kɔ̃te] ; Frainc-Comtou: Fraintche-Comtè; Arpitan: Franche-Comtât; also German: Freigrafschaft;...
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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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    Languages, Cambridge University Press, 2010 p. 160: "out of the phrase posse comitatus 'the force of the county' arose our present use of posse for a group of...
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    Perce War Desert Land Act Great Railroad Strike of 1877 Aftermath Posse Comitatus Act (1878) Civil Rights Cases (1883) United States v. Harris (1883) Plessy...
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    encompasses the territory of the former (comitatus) Sáros county. Sáros county was created in the 13th century from the comitatus Novi Castri (named after Novum...
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    Zólyom county (Latin: Comitatus Zoliensis; Hungarian: Zólyom (vár)megye; Slovak: Zvolenský komitát/Zvolenská stolica/Zvolenská župa; German: Sohler Gespanschaft/Komitat...
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  • and Christian Identity minister. He was a founding member of the Posse Comitatus, an antisemitic, anti-government and anti-tax group associated with the...
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  • in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Posse is a shortened form of posse comitatus, a group of people summoned to assist law enforcement. The term is also...
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  • concepts, with comitatus referring to the land under direct control of the earl, and provincia referring to the province; hence, the comitatus might now only...
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    Neutra; Latin: Comitatus Nitriensis; Slovak: Nitriansky komitát / Nitrianska stolica / Nitrianska župa) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom...
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    Ung County (in Latin: comitatus Unghvariensis; Hungarian: Ung (vár)megye; also in Slovak: Užský komitát/ Užská župa / Užská stolica; Romanian: Comitatul...
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