the british act of quartering acts was being addressed by the third amendment.
the british act of quartering acts was being addressed by the third amendment.
what british act was being addressed by the third amendment?
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the third amendment (amendment iii) to the united states constitution places restrictions on the quartering of soldiers in private homes without the owner's consent, forbidding the practice in peacetime. the amendment is a response to quartering acts passed by the british parliament during the buildup to the american revolutionary war, which had allowed the british army to lodge soldiers in private residences.
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one of the few times a federal court was asked to invalidate a law or action on third amendment grounds was in "engblom v. carey" (1982). in 1979, prison officials in new york organized a strike; they were evicted from their prison facility residences, which were reassigned to members of the national guard who had temporarily taken their place as prison guards. the united states court of appeals for the second circuit ruled: (1) that the term "owner" in the third amendment includes tenants (paralleling similar cases regarding the fourth amendment, governing search and seizure), (2) national guard troops count as soldiers for the purposes of the third amendment, and (3) that the third amendment is incorporated (that is, that it applies to the states) by virtue of the fourteenth amendment. the case was remanded to the district court, which dismissed the case on the grounds that state officials could not have been aware of this interpretation.
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