Assertion: militia's force | /r/CapableOf | protect law
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text: Some of the contexts in which the term "militia" can apply to include: forces engaged in a defense activity or service, to protect a community, its territory, property, and laws, the entire able-bodied population of a community, town, county, or state available to be called to arms, a subset of these who may be legally penalized for failing to respond to a call-up, a subset of these who actually respond to a call-up regardless of legal obligation, a private (non-governmental) force not necessarily directly supported or sanctioned by its government, an irregular armed force that enables its leader to exercise military, economic, or political control over a subnational territory within a sovereign state, an official reserve army composed of citizen soldiers known as the militsiya, a select militia composed of a small, non-representative portion of the population, or maritime militias composed of fishermen and other participants of the marine industry which are organized and sanctioned by the state to enforce its maritime boundaries.