All the jokes about the Third Amendment aside, it's a pretty simple narrative: That amendment was passed at a time when people remembered living under direct occupation in their own neighborhoods from "their own government" It's a very common issue under those circumstances
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The idea that US troops and US cops are above this petty shit is a marker of privilege, honestly Like you can tell how someone grew up by how taken aback they are by the idea that an agent of the state might just come and take your shit just to fuck with you
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Wait, how did the Union justify it then? Or do you mean they occupied homes in Confederate states?
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The latter, yes
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