Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Dokar Martial a Amurka tana nufin lokutan a tarihin Amurka wanda a wani yanki, jiha, birni, ko duk Amurka an sanya shi ƙarƙashin ikon ƙungiyar soja. A matakin kasa, duka Shugaban Amurka da Majalisar Amurka suna da iko, a cikin wasu ƙuntatawa, don sanya dokar ta baci tunda duka suna iya zama masu kula da 'yan bindiga. A kowace jiha, gwamna yana da ikon sanya dokar ta baci a cikin iyakokin jihar. A cikin Amurka, an yi amfani da dokar ta baci a cikin iyakantattun yanayi, kamar New Orleans a lokacin Yaƙin New Orleans; bayan manyan bala'i, kamar Babban Wutar Chicago na 1871, girgizar ƙasa ta 1906 San Francisco, ko yayin tarzoma, kamar Omaha tseren tashin hankali na 1919 ko tashin hankalin Lexington na 1920; shugabannin gida sun ayyana dokar ta baci don kare kansu daga tashin hankali, kamar Nauvoo, Illinois, a lokacin Yaƙin Mormon na Illinois, ko Utah a lokacin Yaƙin Utah; ko don mayar da martani ga hargitsi da ke tattare da zanga-zangar da tarzoma, kamar yajin aikin bakin teku na Yammacin Yammacin 1934.
, a Hawaii bayan harin Japan a kan Pearl Harbor, da kuma lokacin Harkokin 'Yancin Bil'adama a matsayin martani ga tashin hankali na Cambridge na 1963.