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3rd Amendment | What is the Third Amendment?

The Third Amendment in the Bill of Rights protects citizens from quartering soldiers without consent

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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.

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Why did the Founders believe so strongly that troops should not be quartered in the homes of citizens that they enshrined this protection in the Bill of Rights?