Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 22:43:31 -0700
From: rsrchsoc@IONET.NET (John Wilde)
Subject: Re: Query for the list
To: AZRKBA@asu.edu


There is a treatise that best explains it.  It is called "Anderson On
Sherifs"  It cites judicial authority going all the back to the English
Shires and the "Shire reeve"(e.g. Sheriff) before William the Conqueror
in 1066.  Those principles simply became part of the "common law" of this
country.

    The problem is, because the counties are now taking the "federal
money" that has compromised the position of the Sheriff as the chief law
enforcement officer.  The continued receipt of the money is dependent
upon "cooperation" with the feds when they come a knockin.

g'day
John Wilde

Joe Horn wrote:

> I have received a query to which I think I know the answer, but not

> the citation.

>

> To wit: The Sheriff is the highest Peace Officer's Office in the

> County, the largest

> political subdivision within a state, before the state itself.

>

> The Sheriff has the authority to order federal officers out of his

> county as happened in

> Big Horn County, Wyoming,  throwing the Feds out, stating unless they

> contact him first,

> before taking any action in his county.

>

> >From what does the Sheriff draw this power?

>

> Joe Horn