The Fourth Amendment to my understanding when we talked about it in class is, during the Colonial Period, colonists were forced to let British soldiers sleep in their homes and eat their meals. Colonists were outraged, and the more they upset the British government, the more they were punished by having soldiers forced into their homes. The amendment offers the property rights and the privacy rights. The Bill of Rights writers didn't want this to happen again, so they added Amendment Three.
This picture relates to Amendment Three because it's showing that the Constitution is protecting American's from house soldiers. Now the law also protects the Americans' rights to privacy.
The Third Amendment says, "that troops cannot be quartered in homes at all during peacetime, and only as prescribed by law during wartime" Quartering means that the government cannot "quarter" troops in your home. By having their private property used by the government without their permission, early Americans wanted a guarantee that they would be protected from this abuse in the future.
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