Third Amendment--Quartering Soldiers

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                           QUARTERING SOLDIERS

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                             THIRD AMENDMENT

  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.

        There has been no Supreme Court explication of this Amendment,
which was obviously one guarantee of the preference for the civilian
over the military.\1\

        \1\In fact, save for the curious case of Engblom v. Carey, 677
F. 2d 957 (2d Cir. 1982), on remand, 572 F. Supp. 44 (S.D.N.Y.), aff'd.
per curiam, 724 F.2d 28 (2d Cir. 1983), there has been no judicial
explication at all.