What Are The Poor 3rd Amendment

The poor Third Amendment. The other amendments of the United States Constitution's Bill of Rights inspire public attention and volumes of legal research. Meanwhile, the Third Amendment suffers in comparative oblivion. The minor attention that it does receive usually fails to serve it well. Lawyers twist it to fit absurd claims, the popular press subjects it to ridicule, and academics limit it to footnotes. The reality is that the Third Amendment guarantees that the army cannot force homeowners to give them room and board.

A few scholars have, to their credit, recognized the important and dramatic role that the Third Amendment and its predecessors played in British and American history, but even these accounts overlook crucial aspects of