Third Amendment Viewing Guide Answer Key
- What is meant by quartering of troops? Troops are quartered when they live on an individuals’s private property.
- What did Parliament criticize King Charles I of in the Petition of Right? It criticized Charles for forcing individuals to quarter troops in their homes against their will.
- What changed during the French and Indian War regarding the quartering of soldiers? The British began quartering troops on colonists’s private property at the expense of colonial legislature and sometimes without the consent of the owner.
- What was the Parliament Act of 1765? It allowed the British to quarter troops on colonists’s private property, even though the French and Indian War was over.
- What was the ruling in the case of Engblom v. Carey (1982)? The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Third Amendment was applied to the states within its jurisdiction. Therefore, the National Guard could not be quartered in the private residence of the corrections officers.