Citizens' Militia
Civic Militia

He favoured abolition of the army and replacement by a citizens' militia.

But the guerrilla army, more of a citizens' militia, these days is often the part of society that has the most authority.

The more immediate action of forming citizens' militias took place in October 1990 as a backlash to the demonstrations.

I'm not recruiting for a citizens' militia, Tommy.

After the Taino victory the colonists formed a citizens' militia to defend themselves against the attacks.

Many Posse members practice survivalism and played a role in the formation of the armed citizens' militias in the 1990s.

The name Gwardia used to be a common name for any Citizens' Militia's sports' club in Poland.

Gwardia was organized in 1948 as a Polish Citizens' Militia's (Communist Police) club.

After a review process, a number of its members were then incorporated into a new national policing structure, the Milicja Obywatelska, or Citizens' Militia.

Historically, these associations originated in late medieval autonomous towns as a form of citizens' militia aimed mainly to defend the town's privileges against the local princes.

The Einwohnerwehr, active in Germany from 1919 to 1921 as a paramilitary citizens' militia consisting of hundreds of thousands of mostly former servicemen.

Already an officer of the citizens' militia, Maltby was appointed as a lieutenant in the First Australian Imperial Force on 16 May 1915.

The response was to deny Congress power to abridge the ancient right of individuals to keep and bear arms, so that the ideal of a citizens' militia would be preserved.

Hundreds of thousands of Parisians were armed members of a citizens' militia known as the "National Guard", which had been greatly expanded to help defend the city.

Conservatism, in other words, now belongs to the fever-swamp of American politics, represented by such figures as Pat Robertson, Patrick J. Buchanan and the citizens' militias.

In the category of major-market television stations, WXYZ-TV in Detroit was cited for a three-part series on the citizens' militia movement in Michigan.

The Antifederalists feared that the Federal Government would disarm the people in order to disable this citizens' militia, enabling a politicized standing army or a select militia to rule.

The students exercised a preponderant influence in the "central committee," the administrative body of the revolutionaries, which consisted of an equal number of students and members of the citizens' militia.

His connection as patron of a citizens' militia group called AUSI Freedom Scouts (Australians United for Survival and Individual Freedom).

"Since our police force is at worst collaborating with the enemy and at best unable to function, Triumvir Parq will be organizing a citizens' militia based around the various Dalavan temples.

When the duke's soldiers tried to scale Geneva's walls in 1602, a citizens' militia repelled them, and one housewife, Mere Royaume, hurled a caldron with boiling soup on the attacking Savoyards.

Jack Granatstein has termed this the "militia myth", and he feels it has had a deep effect on Canadian military thinking, which placed more stress on a citizens' militia than on a professional standing army.

Zmotoryzowane Oddziały Milicji Obywatelskiej (ZOMO) (Motorized Reserves of the Citizens' Militia), were paramilitary-police formations during the Communist Era, in the People's Republic of Poland.

Defenders of the Army National Guard complain that the Army has probably resented the National Guard as a drain on scarce resources since the days of the colonial citizens' militias from which the Guard sprang.

The central government was especially disturbed by the fact that in many cases the civic militias refused to intervene.

The piece was commissioned for the new hall of the Kloveniersdoelen, the musketeer branch of the civic militia.

Mobs had attacked regents of the Remonstrant party while the civic militias and the federal military authorities looked the other way.

He formed a civic militia, delegating authority in this case to Baojian, the erstwhile caravan-master.

The painting is said to have been commissioned by the Captain and seventeen members of his Kloveniers (civic militia guards).

These were lacking in the States Army (the civic militia or Schutterij was not part of the army).

Michiel served as commissioner in the local court of justice, and served in the St. George civic militia.

Basel's merrymaking dates from the 16th century, when revelry surrounded the review of the civic militia at that time of the year.

Many Santanistas viewed the state civic militias, radical liberal factions, and politicians who supported dangerous popular movements as principal barriers to national progress.

As political chief of San Salvador he organized the civic militia during a time of threat to the capital by an invasion from Guatemala.

Cities had their civic militias, but these were mainly used to keep order, and were of dubious value in case of a military conflict, like a siege.

Confronting many uprisings-despite a number of victories in bloody skirmishes that defeated state civic militia forces-by December the government was overwhelmed and compelled to surrender.

Governor Francisco Garcia of Zacatecas mobilized his civic militias and ordered his people to construct fortifications.

Blaming instability on the civic militia, the moderates sought to weaken it, but some states considered the militia their best guarantee of autonomy and opposed the measure.

The regular army and provincial civic militias became the tools of ambitious politician-commanders who took on dual roles, defending both the new nation and their individual regional fiefdoms.

The crisis deepened when another petition to Congress was presented by the civic militia stationed in Bellavista and a third headed by Mariano Tramarría.

Some yorkinos supported radical state legislatures that passed laws to enlist state civic militias for self-defense and to enshrine regional power against the centralism of Mexico City.

To further these goals, the government sent former royalist commanders to disband the civic militias in states such as Zacatecas and Yucatan that had backed radical federalist aspirations.

Challoner armed a civic militia in defence of Dublin with "several pieces of ordnance and a hundred and fifty fire arms" which he had imported at his own expense from Spain.

Carbajal, along with James Grant and John Marie Durst of Nacogdoches were on the Committee of Civic Militia and Colonization.

He order the disarmament of the civic militia in face of protests by their commander, Lucas Balderas, and suggested to Congress that they should abolish the Ley del Caso.

When they were both in the jail the building was surrounded by the Hague civic militia, who were fiercely Orangist, because there were rumors that Cornelis would be allowed to escape.

But Frederikshald was defended by two companies of the civic militia under captain Peder Olsen Normand, who had taken up a position on the Overberget hill south of the town.

Many expected a military coup after the cities of Leiden and Utrecht actually raised corps of waardgelders and used them to purge the civic militias of Counter-Remonstrant sympathizers.

The States-General, however, mobilized civic militias and scrounged garrison troops from fortresses all around the country, assembling an army that at the height of the emergency numbered no less than 128,000 troops.