organized militia
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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He denied that those captured were members of locally organized militia groups.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2021
—So December 13, 1636, marks the beginning of the organized militia.
From Fox News ● Dec. 13, 2021
Heller, the court held that the Constitution granted an individual right to possess a gun in the home for self-defense, unrelated to the person’s participation in an organized militia.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2021
The organized militia became the National Guard; what was meant by the "unorganized militia" was simply a reserve of all men 17 to 45 years of age who might be called into service, if needed.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2020
The absence of the organized militia and other regular and volunteer soldiers was, by the leaders of the movement, widely proclaimed, to encourage the belief that resistance would be successful.
From Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer
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