Amendment III

Debates in Congress

• quoted bySuggested
  House, August 17, 1789, ¶ 22

  The fourth clause of the fourth proposition was taken up as follows: ‘**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.

  The paragraph gives the words of the committee's proposal, and the same words appear in the Third Amendment.

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  House, August 17, 1789, ¶ 24

  He moved to strike out all the words from the clause but ‘‘no soldier shall be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner."

  The paragraph gives the words of Mr. Sumter's motion, and its words "be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner" appear in the Third Amendment.

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  House, June 8, 1789, ¶ 33

  No soldier shall in time of peace be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner; nor at any time, but in a manner warranted by law.

  The paragraph gives the words of Mr. Madison's proposals, and its words "No soldier shall in time of peace be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner" appear in the Third Amendment.

• cited bySuggested
  Senate, May 23, 1866, ¶ 20

  …people peaceably to assemble and petition the Government for a redress of grievances, a right appertaining to each and all the people; the right to keep and to bear arms; the right to be exempted from the quartering of soldiers in a house without the consent of the owner; the right to be exempt from unreasonable seai ches and seizures, and from any search or seizure except by virtue of a warrant issued upon a formal oath or…

  Among the rights it says are "secured by the first eight amendments of the Constitution," the paragraph names the right to be exempted from the quartering of soldiers in a house without the consent of the owner.

The Supreme Court

Cases whose essays in the Constitution Annotated cite them under this clause, oldest first. Each link names the pages it comes from.

• interpreted bySuggested
  Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)381 U.S. 479, decided June 7, 1965

  The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 2 pages.

  Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt3.1, Amdt3.2, Amdt3.3, pp. 1601, 1604.

• interpreted bySuggested
  Katz v. United States (1967)389 U.S. 347, decided December 18, 1967

  The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 2 pages.

  Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt3.1, Amdt3.2, Amdt3.3, pp. 1601, 1604.