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# Militia

## Definition

A military force composed of ordinary citizens who serve part-time, maintaining their civilian occupations while periodically training for military service, funded primarily through their own subsistence rather than state pay.

## Source Chapter

Book V, Chapter 1

## Context

One of two methods for providing public defence, contrasted with standing armies, representing the traditional form of military organisation in early societies where citizens maintained their own equipment and subsistence.

## Economic Domain

Regulation

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