Vigilance Committee Definition

noun
A group organized outside of legal authority to keep order and punish crime because the usual law-enforcement agencies do not exist or are alleged to be inefficient.
Webster's New World
A volunteer group of citizens that without authority assumes powers such as pursuing and punishing those suspected of lawbreaking.
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Noun

Singular:
vigilance committee
Plural:
vigilance committees

Vigilance Committee Sentence Examples

  • In 1880 a Vigilance Committee was appointed to watch over the restoration of the interior.

  • The citizens organized a " vigilance committee " and hanged many of the outlaws.

  • About six thousand persons spent the winter in Cheyenne, and disorder was checked only by the organization of a vigilance committee.

  • This was the most important movement for good government in its history since the Vigilance Committee of 1856.

  • The institution of the College of Deputed Councillors might thus be described as a vigilance committee of the states in perpetual session.

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