Amendments
Amendment III
Constitution of the United States
Official text
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Proposed by Congress September 25, 1789. Ratified December 15, 1791.
In plain English
In peacetime, the government may not house soldiers in your home without your consent. In wartime it may do so only in a way set by law. The colonists had been forced to quarter British troops, and the Declaration of Independence listed it as a grievance: "For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us."
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- The Third Amendment: No Soldiers in Your Home (The Bill of Rights)
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