Posse Comitatus Act 2024 In English. Because the posse comitatus act prohibits the military from enforcing civilian law and us law prohibits assassinations on us soil they have to find somewhere else to carry out. Buttaro authors the posse comitatus act of 1878 and the end of reconstruction, st.

Because the posse comitatus act prohibits the military from enforcing civilian law and us law prohibits assassinations on us soil they have to find somewhere else to carry out. Code, section 1385, was first passed in 1878 to resolve concerns that the federal military was being used to enforce domestic laws.