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The 3rd amendment doesn't exist anymore. It only applies in time of peace, and we are now in an eternal global war on terror.
by rcthompson 14y ago
The 3rd amendment doesn't exist anymore. It only applies in time of peace, and we are now in an eternal global war on terror.
- mcintyre1994 14y agoWe have always been at war with <enemy>. I kid, but I honestly wasn't aware of that, was the constitution written to exclude wartime or did somebody have to amend it because some condition was untenable during wartime?
- EvanKelly 14y agoThe third amendment has always stated "in time of peace". The specification is due to the fact that any foreseeable war was to be fought on US soil (War of 1812!) and we didn't have the infrastructure to deal with housing troops in the event of that war. I don't think SCOTUS has had to interpret "time of peace" in the 3rd Amendment in modern times.