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Amendment #3
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Soldiers would enter colonists homes sleeping in there beds eating there food and sometimes raping and killing them.
http://constitutioncenter.org/constitution/the-amendments/amendment-3-quartering-of-soldiers
The Third Amendment is intended to protect citizens’ rights to the ownership and use of their property without intrusion by the government.
http://kids.laws.com/third-amendment
The Third Amendment, or Amendment III of the United States Constitution is the section of the Bill of Rights that prohibits soldiers from temporarily residing in private homes during peacetime without getting the permission and consent of the owner.
http://patriotaction.net/forum/topics/violations-of-the-3rd-amendment-in-nevada?commentId=260
You don't often hear about lawsuits based on the Third Amendment, the one that says "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.
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Shame on the Henderson Nevada Police Department and the officers that were involved in this abuse of power. Don't get me wrong I work with Law Enforcement Officers around the country on a daily basis and many of them over the years have become personal friends. I would give up my life for many of them.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/07/03/59061.htm
Henderson police arrested a family for refusing to let officers use their homes as lookouts for a domestic violence investigation of their neighbors, the family claims in court.
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/bill_of_rights/media/three.htm
This violate act is still going on in the year of today.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/07/brief-history-third-amendment-cases
For all the problems facing the United States in the early years of the 21st century—mission creep, gridlock, cat poop—the unlawful quartering of soldiers in America's' homes during times of peace is one we've managed to avoid
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/07/07/third-amendment-henderson-nevada-police-c
olumn/2496689/ Now we see another Third Amendment case, from Henderson, Nev., in which the plaintiffs, the Mitchell family, claim that Henderson police seized their home -- battering the door open with a battering ram -- so as to secure an advantageous position in addressing a domestic violence report involving a neighboring house.
https://www.rutherford.org/constitutional_corner/amendment_iii_the_quartering_amendment/
Since the time of our nation’s founding, Americans’ homes have been their most important physical possession. The colonists took to heart eighteenth century British Prime Minister William Pitt’s sentiment: “Every man’s home is his castle.”
http://profsegal.blogspot.com/2005/12/third-amendment.html
The Third Amendment states, "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 prescribed by law."
Today, the amendment appears to be a forgotten artifact of the Founders' era, for it forbids a practice that no longer troubles Americans: the quartering of soldiers in private homes.
http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/third-amendment.html
This law was extremely important to our Founding Fathers, but it is not so well known to modern Americans.
How was the 3rd Amendment created and who created it , why is this an important Amendment
http://constitution.laws.com/3rd-amendment
The Third Amendment is a part of the Bill of Rights, which are the first 10 Amendments to the United States Constitution and the framework to elucidate upon the freedoms of the individual.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_the_founding_fathers_create_the_third_amendment
http://usconservatives.about.com/od/conservativepolitics101/qt/Third-Amendment-Bill-of-Rights.htm The Third Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects American citizens from being forced to use their homes to board members of the U.S. military.
http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/pages.aspx?name=third-amendment&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 The Third Amendment is intended to protect citizens’ rights to the ownership and use of their property without intrusion by the government. The drafters of the Constitution, like many other colonists, were resentful of laws, in place before the Revolutionary War, that allowed British soldiers to take over private homes for their own use.
http://www.saf.org/lawreviews/fieldsandhardy2.html