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  2. Third Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The Third Amendment has been invoked in a few instances as helping establish an implicit right to privacy in the Constitution. [18] Justice William O. Douglas used the amendment along with others in the Bill of Rights as a partial basis for the majority decision in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), [19] which cited the Third Amendment as implying ...

  3. Engblom v. Carey - Wikipedia

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    Since its ratification, the Third Amendment has rarely been litigated, and no Supreme Court case has relied on the Third Amendment as the basis for a decision. As such, the Third Amendment has not been found to apply to the state—a principle known as the incorporation doctrine. Before the 1920s, the Bill of Rights was considered to only apply ...

  4. List of amendments to the Constitution of the United States

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    The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol. [4] Congress has also enacted statutes governing the constitutional amendment process.

  5. Americans' privacy rights find an origin in the U.S ... - AOL

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    Opinion: The Third Amendment emerged out of American colonists' grievances against the British Crown for forcing them to quarter soldiers. Americans' privacy rights find an origin in the U.S ...

  6. This is how many amendments there are in the U.S ... - AOL

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    A good example is the First Amendment - freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and the right to petition the Government. Under the Convention process, a convention could conceivably open up ...

  7. United States Bill of Rights - Wikipedia

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    The United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.Proposed following the often bitter 1787–88 debate over the ratification of the Constitution and written to address the objections raised by Anti-Federalists, the Bill of Rights amendments add to the Constitution specific guarantees of personal freedoms and rights, clear limitations on the ...

  8. Third Amendment - Wikipedia

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    Third Amendment to the United States Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, preventing the U.S. government from quartering soldiers in a civilian's home during peacetime without the consent of the civilian, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law

  9. Freedom of the press in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Hayes as "a fundamental personal right", not confined to newspapers and periodicals. [12] In Lovell v. City of Griffin (1938), [13] Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes defined the press as "every sort of publication which affords a vehicle of information and opinion." [14] This right has been extended to newspapers, books, plays, movies, and ...