0 a military force whose members are trained soldiers but who often have other jobs: --
1 a military force that operates only some of the time and whose members are not soldiers in a permanent army: --
Each militia represents one of the country’s political factions.
The militia institutionalized the classical principles of active citizenship and constitutional balance on which ' country ' politics was founded.
There is considerable tension with the militias' idea of the past being readily and easily accessible, for example.
They set ultimatums, albeit moveable ones, for militias to surrender.
This is the militia movement's own primary rule of constitutional interpretation.
The second factor was the difficulty of impressing the official policy of openness upon border police and militias.
The study closes with three moving case studies which represent the variety of women's war experience, as civilian supporters, armed militia, and frontline combatants.
The idea, of course, was to make up for the waning frequency of musters by training the militia properly.
Those who support and pay for the militia insist that the fight against crime is also directed against the invisible forces of evil.
