The Bill of Rights - Third Amendment

In honor of the 230th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights, in our third week, we are talking about Amendment III:

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.

I’m going to be hones with you: I read this one in law school, but if you had dared me to remember it until I looked the exact language up a few minutes ago, there’s a solid 75% chance I could not have done it. This language doesn’t come up all that often in our modern world, but it does go to show that the concerns of the founders are sometimes difficult to wrap our heads around and should make us think that the drafters of our Constitution’s ability to imagine the modern world must have been nearly impossible, as well.

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