Vigilantes our most famous in the late nineteenth century in the Midwestern United States. Where a vigilante law system was widely used. But first, the actual definition of a vigilante is someone who takes law enforcement into one’s own hands or a member in a vigilance committee (Dictionary). In this time period, in small towns where no legal system or law enforcement was put into place, a vigilance committee could have been made. Where by there is no legal officers, just normal people. Here people would stand trial and sentence would be carried out. The sentencing was built on a revengeful scale of repercussions. A Code of Hammurabi type of mentality was used. Death was a common sentencing. Sentence was carried out immediately. One example of a vigilance committee is in California in the late 1840’s where the gold rush began. It

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