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The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 was originally passed to prevent federal troops from enforcing civil rights laws in the South during Reconstruction.
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The Posse Comitatus Act was Congress paying the Confederate debt. Passed in 1878 as Reconstruction ended, the law banned federal troops from protecting Black voters in the South. Southern Democrats de...
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