Sentences with phrase «citizen army»
A citizen army refers to a military organization made up of ordinary citizens rather than professional soldiers. It means that regular people from the community are trained to defend their country when needed. Full definition
No Labels will do its part, growing our million - plus - member citizen army and empowering a «problem - solver caucus» in Congress that now numbers almost 80 members.
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The end of the draft after the Viet Nam debacle resulted in America having a professional rather than a citizen army.
No one knows whether ordinary soldiers, even from what is no longer in any normal sense a citizen army, would obey clearly illegal orders to oust an elected government or whether the officer corps would ever have sufficient confidence to issue such orders.
in peace you don't need guns... but guns for defense and about power who has the real power... citizens army and citizens police force.
Accepting his party's nomination for governor yesterday, Andrew Cuomo whipped up the Democratic crowd with his promise to lead a citizen army that would «turn this state around.»
I first heard of the existence of militias, citizen armies, and «patriot groups» back in 1994.
The lobby conducted nonstop TV, Facebook, and Web video campaigns, it sent its «citizen army» to rally for Mitt Romney in coal country, and it ignited the narrative that Obama was waging a «War on Coal.»