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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It was only afterwards that everyone went along with Lincoln's retcon that secession, effectively, never actually happened (because it was legally and constitutionally invalid) and all of the states had still been under the US government and US Constitution the whole time
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I honestly still consider it bullshit that when they list the total number of "American casualties" in the Civil War they always combine the numbers from both sides Like, no, 600k Americans did not die to "free the slaves", half of those died to try to prevent that
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As opposed to the PR refusing to recognise the Confederacy as an entity. Right?
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