The Third Amendment: Engblom v. Carey As our founding fathers insisted, the third amendment protects individuals from quartering of troops. In other words, without a home owner's consent, no troops are allowed to be quartered within a citizen's home. This has been amended to the Constitution due to British parliament rule over the colonies in 1765. Under direct challenge of the third amendment, the Engblom v. Carey case has been the only case involving quartering of troops. In 1765, prior to our independence, the British enacted the Quartering Act. In which required the colonists to pay the British soldiers and also lodge them. Too much disapproval, the Quartering Act has caused the ratification of the third amendment. To this day the only