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Posse Comitatus Act. The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. Â§ 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152) signed on June 18, 1878 by President Rutherford B. Hayes. The purpose of the act â in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807 â is to limit the powers of the federal government in using federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States.
Posse started out as a technical term in law, part of the term posse comitatus, which in Medieval Latin meant power or authority of the county. As such, it referred to a group of citizens summoned by a sheriff to preserve the public peace as allowed for by law. Preserving the public peace so often meant hunting down a supposed criminal that posse eventually came to mean any group organized to make a search or embark on a mission. In even broader use it can refer to any group, period.