Amendment III: Continental Congress, Declaration and Resolves

Amendment III

Document 3

Continental Congress, Declaration and Resolves

14 Oct. 1774

Tansill 4, 5

Resolved, N. C. D. 9. That the keeping a standing army in these colonies, in times of peace, without the consent of the legislature of that colony, in which such army is kept, is against law.

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Also the act passed in the same session, for the better providing suitable quarters for officers and soldiers in his majesty's service, in North-America.

The Founders' Constitution
Volume 5, Amendment III, Document 3
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendIIIs3.html
The University of Chicago Press

Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States. Edited by Charles C. Tansill. 69th Cong., 1st sess. House Doc. No. 398. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1927.

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