Need Help For A Third Grade Lesson:

[Dinger]

How would you briefly paraphrase the 3rd amendment? (In terms bright 3rd graders would understand)

[Botany]

1. This help?

http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/bill_of_rights/media/three.htm

No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

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 writers of The Bill of Rights wanted to make sure that this could never happen again so the Third Amendment was added.

[BOSSHOG]

2. You won't have to share your

bedroom or dinner table with soldiers. The government won't let that happen. Now mommy and daddy can volunteer to let the Army use our home to house Soldiers but we don't have to. But if the Government is in need of housing for Soldiers during time of war and it is considered an emergency we might have to take in Soldiers for the good of the country. But we will be notified in advance. That's how the founding fathers want it to be. And that's in our constitution as an amendment. Can you say amendment?

[rpgamerd00d]

3. "War is bad, mmmKay?"

[hwmnbn]

4. hmmm, let's see......

"No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law."

During peacetime, no soldiers can live in your house without your parents' permission. During a war, they can pass a law to say it's OK.




That's using my best third grade brain..... hope it helps.

[twilight_sailing]

5. You might want to throw in a little background

Just a sentence or two about the history and the reason why.

Amendment III (the Third Amendment) to the United States Constitution is a part of the United States Bill of Rights. It prohibits the quartering of soldiers (military personnel) in private homes without the owner's consent in peacetime. It makes quartering legally permissible in wartime only, but only in accordance with law. The Founding Fathers' intention in writing this amendment was to prevent the recurrence of soldiers being quartered in private citizens' houses as was done in Colonial America by the British military under the Quartering Act before the American Revolution (1775/6).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

Something like - during the Revolutionary War the British made the Colonists let the British soldiers stay in the Colonists' houses for free, whether they wanted them there or not.

[Dinger]

6. ThankYou Everybody - It Halps A Lot!

:) :patriot:

[valerief]

7. If soldiers are quartered in your house during peacetime, you can

draw and quarter them.

Well, maybe that's not really the case…