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Vig·i·lance com·mit·tee

/ˈvijələns kəˈmidē/

noun
- 1. a body of vigilantes. US
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Group formed by private citizens to administer law and order where they considered governmental structures to be inadequate
A vigilance committee is a group of private citizens who take it upon themselves to administer law and order or exercise power in places where they consider the governmental structures or actions inadequate. Some vigilance committees engaged in forms of vigilantism such as aiding fugitive slaves in violation of the laws on the books at the time. Beginning in the 1830s committees of abolitionists w... Wikipedia
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