Yea. The National Guard of the United States.*
By that time if the Brits were "quartering" in U.S. houses, it would be called ...
... an invasion by a foreign country.
Does this help?
"At the 1788
Virginia Ratifying Convention, when debating the ratification of the new United States Constitution,
Patrick Henry stated, "One of our first complaints, under
the former government, was the quartering of troops among us. This was one of the principal reasons for dissolving the connection with Great Britain. Here we may have troops in time of peace. They may be billeted in any manner — to tyrannize, oppress, and crush us."
[1] "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Amendment_to_the_United_ States_Constitution
Little "key words" in context are extremely helpful in reading comprehension:
"former government"
"was ... dissolving the connection with Great Britain."
The "former government" and "dissolving the connection" = British!!!!!!
When DID YOU study the forming of the Constitution and the amendments?
Or DID YOU?
Let me guess ... your intellectual response will be ... "idiot"?
BTW: Does the 3rd shed some light (to you) on the "thrust" of the 2nd amendment ... like what on earth were they talking about?
* Yea, I know it wasn't technically known as the "National Guard" (or the phrase would have been used inside of "militias" etc, back then), but the concept had its roots early on.
"The National Guard traces its history to the establishment of three militia regiments by the General Court of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony on 13 December 1636.
[3] The first muster of the three regiments is generally thought to have occurred in the spring of 1637 on
Salem Common.
[4] The 101st Engineer Battalion, the 101st Field Artillery Regiment, the 181st Infantry Regiment, and the 182nd Infantry Regiment trace their lineage to these three regiments: the North, South and East Regiments.
[5] The term "national guard" was not used at that time; it was first coined in the 1790s by the
Marquis de Lafayette as a description of anti-royalist
French Revolutionary citizen forces.
[6] (Lafayette had earlier served as a general officer fighting under
George Washington in the
American Revolutionary War.)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa..._United_States
