Posse comitatus /(?)/

Pos·se com·i·ta·tus

Posse comitatus
  1. The power of the county, or the citizens who may be summoned by the sheriff to assist the authorities in suppressing a riot, or executing any legal precept which is forcibly opposed. (Law)
  2. A collection of people; a throng; a rabble. [Colloq.]
    As if the passion that rules were the sheriff of the place, and came off with all the posse.