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What does Posse Comitatus mean?
The Posse Comitatus Act generally restricts use of covered armed forces to execute civilian law except where the Constitution or Congress expressly authorizes it. It does not mean the military can never operate domestically.
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- Synchronized Youth Uprisings and U.S. Political Paralysis: A Global Contagion Scenario Assessment — Mitigation Monitoring and Likely Political OutcomesSource section 1
- Security-Sector Command Fracture in a U.S. Constitutional Crisis: Cohesion, Lawful Authority, and Sovereignty Risk — Legal and Institutional Command ArchitectureSource section 2
- Security-Sector Command Fracture: U.S. Civil–Military Framework — Institutional Chains of CommandSource section 3
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