The Founders' Constitution
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Amendment III
Document 10
St. George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries 1:App. 300--301
1803
Our state bill of rights, conforming to the experience of all nations, declares, that standing armies in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; this article of the constitution, seems by a kind of side wind, to countenance, or at least, not to prohibit them. The billeting of soldiers upon the citizens of a state, has been generally found burthensome to the people, and so far as this article may prevent that evil it may be deemed valuable; but it certainly adds nothing to the national security.
The Founders' Constitution
Volume 5, Amendment III, Document 10
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendIIIs10.html
The University of Chicago Press
Tucker, St. George. Blackstone's Commentaries: With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws of the Federal Government of the United States and of the Commonwealth of Virginia. 5 vols. Philadelphia, 1803. Reprint. South Hackensack, N.J.: Rothman Reprints, 1969.
