Third Amendment: Quartering of Troops. NCC Staff. Mon, February 3, 2014 at 3:55 PM UTC. As part of the National Constitution Center’s 27 Amendments (In 27 Days) project, each day we will look at ...

They enacted the Quartering Acts of 1765, which stated that inns, stables, taverns and wineries were required to house troops at the discretion of a British officer.

In the 18th century, when the Third Amendment was drafted, "troop quartering" meant literally having troops move into your house to live at your expense and sleep in your beds.

Amendment Three to the United States Constitution restricts the “quartering” of soldiers in peoples’ houses without the consent of the owner. This applies during peacetime.

Among the many grievances listed in the Declaration of Independence, few are as often overlooked today as the complaint about quartering troops: "For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us." ...

The Third Amendment, which forbids the “quartering” of troops in private homes during peacetime without the owner’s consent and in wartime without specific congressional authorization, is ...

Jay and Luke dig into the most successful, and therefore least controversial, of the the ten amendments that make up the Bill of Rights: the prohibition on quartering soldiers.

Thomas Jefferson and friends penned the grievance, “quartering large bodies of troops among us,” and other grievances in the Declaration of Independence (1776). Military mayhem achieved ...

Police officers in Nevada are now facing the business end of a lawsuit accusing them of violating the Third Amendment, which bans government from “quartering soldiers” in a private home ...

The Third Amendment was prompted by actions of the English Crown that outraged ordinary Americans: Colonists had been forced to house British soldiers in their homes without their consent.

The "Knowing Better" YouTube channel investigates whether the Third Amendment's prohibition on the "quartering of soldiers" would apply to a militarized police force.