Mob - in Law, Law Enforcement, and Politics

In Law, Law Enforcement, and Politics

  • Mobbing (Scots law)
  • An angry mob; see ochlocracy
  • The Mobile Party, the people in the streets, appealed to by an English politician lacking support in Parliament (17th & 18th centuries). "A politician who lacked backing in Parliament referred to his “mobile party”— the people in the streets. (This was the origin of “mob.”)" T.R. Fehrenbach

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