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  2. Citizen's arrest - Wikipedia

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    A citizen's arrest is an arrest made by a private ... Article 16 of the 1917 Constitution of Mexico allows any ... Other states seem to allow only arrests in cases of ...

  3. Police power (United States constitutional law) - Wikipedia

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    The authority for use of police power under American Constitutional law has its roots in English and European common law traditions. [3] Even more fundamentally, use of police power draws on two Latin principles, sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas ("use that which is yours so as not to injure others"), and salus populi suprema lex esto ("the welfare of the people shall be the supreme law ...

  4. Freedom of movement under United States law - Wikipedia

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    The Articles of Confederation government (1783–1789) did not have a passport requirement. From 1789 through late 1941, the government established under the Constitution required United States passports of citizens only during the American Civil War (1861–1865) and during and shortly after World War I (1914–1918). The passport requirement ...

  5. Are citizens’ arrests legal in Texas? State law is blurry and ...

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    Article 14.01 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure states that a peace officer “or other person” can make an arrest without a warrant when an offense is committed in their presence or ...

  6. Vigilantism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Lynching in the United States; Mobbing, the coming together of people for the purpose of bullying an individual; Neighborhood watch; Posse comitatus, the "citizen enforcer" band is either capable of acting lawfully as an exceptional agent of justice; or it is in danger of deteriorating into lawlessness which is motivated by populist malice

  7. JONATHAN TURLEY: House 'delegate' shows her confusion over ...

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    Either way, citizens will choose the status of the island. The Democrats giving Plaskett a standing ovation would have presumably added half a dozen new votes for non-states.

  8. Bad Elk v. United States - Wikipedia

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    By 2012, only fourteen states allowed a citizen to resist an unlawful arrest. [fn 3] [40] The case also received negative treatment in subsequent Supreme Court cases, from Carroll v. United States in 1925, on arrests and vehicle searches, to Atwater v. City of Lago Vista in 2001, holding that an arrest without a warrant, even for a misdemeanor ...

  9. Proposal to allow local police to make arrests near Arizona ...

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    The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that a proposal that would let local police make arrests near the state’s border with Mexico will appear on the Nov. 5 ballot for voters to decide. The court ...