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I agree with csmsss, I don't see this as a 3rd Amendment case at all. This was the police, not the army.
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That text right there is a SERIOUS legal and historical mistake.
Two mistakes, actually.
First is that you're assuming we even had such a critter as a "policeman" circa 1792 (when the Bill of Rights took effect). We did not.
You are also forgetting that the entire concept of "Posse Comitatus" comes from the post-Civil-War period. So in 1792 the military, including local militias or regular army, could be pressed into what we would call "police duty" (bordering at times on SWAT-level stuff).
So - is there an equivalency between the cops of 2013 and the military of 1792?
You betcha.