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Missouri's 7th District, U.S. House of Representatives

 

 

 

Congressional Issues 2006
THREATS TO CIVIL LIBERTIES
National I.D. Cards



The 110th Congress should:
  • Resist all calls for a national I.D. card.

The Third Amendment of the Constitution says:

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.

Joseph Story, in his Commentaries on the Constitution 3 : § 1893, writes:

§ 1893. This provision speaks for itself. Its plain object is to secure the perfect enjoyment of that great right of the common law, that a man's house shall be his own castle, privileged against all civil and military intrusion. The billetting of soldiers in time of peace upon the people has been a common resort of arbitrary princes, and is full of inconvenience and peril. In the petition of right (3 Charles I.), it was declared by parliament to be a great grievance.

The Founders' Constitution
Volume 5, Amendment III, Document 12
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendIIIs12.html

If a man's home is his castle, then so is his wallet, and the government treads on this right when it demands the quartering of government cards on our person. The government may as well require us to be escorted at all times by a soldier who will verify our right to exist within this nation's borders.



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