Why were the third and fourth amendment important

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.

The Third Amendment limits the federal government’s ability to use private homes as lodging for soldiers. The Supreme Court has never decided a case directly implicating the Third Amendment and has cited it only in a handful of opinions.1 Footnote
See infra Amdt3.3 Government Intrusion and the Third Amendment. As a result, some legal scholars consider the Amendment to be “an interesting study in constitutional obsolescence.” 2 Footnote
Morton J. Horwitz , Is the Third Amendment Obsolete? , 26 Val. Univ. L. Rev. 209 , 212 (1991) ; accord William S. Fields & David T. Hardy , The Third Amendment and the Issue of the Maintenance of Standing Armies: A Legal History , 35 Am. J. Legal Hist. 393 , 393 (1991) . When ratified, however, the Third Amendment enshrined “protections of great importance,” 3 Footnote
Fields & Hardy , supra note 2, at 394 . reflecting the Founders’ pre-Revolutionary experiences with British soldiers and centuries of English history.4 Footnote
See infra Amdt3.2 Historical Background of the Third Amendment.

Despite the Amendment’s near-disuse as to its original protections,5 Footnote
Contra Engblom v. Carey, 677 F.2d 957 (2d Cir. 1982) . it took on a new dimension in the second half of the twentieth century, with courts and scholars citing it as one of the constitutional “guarantees creat[ing] zones of privacy” 6 Footnote
Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479, 484 (1965) ; see also Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347, 350 n.5 (1967) . and for a “traditional and strong resistance of Americans to any military intrusion into civilian affairs.” 7 Footnote
Laird v. Tatum, 408 U.S. 1, 15 (1972) ; see infra Amdt3.3 Government Intrusion and the Third Amendment.

Footnotes 1 See infra Amdt3.3 Government Intrusion and the Third Amendment. 2 Morton J. Horwitz , Is the Third Amendment Obsolete? , 26 Val. Univ. L. Rev. 209 , 212 (1991) ; accord William S. Fields & David T. Hardy , The Third Amendment and the Issue of the Maintenance of Standing Armies: A Legal History , 35 Am. J. Legal Hist. 393 , 393 (1991) . 3 Fields & Hardy , supra note 2, at 394 . 4 See infra Amdt3.2 Historical Background of the Third Amendment. 5 Contra Engblom v. Carey, 677 F.2d 957 (2d Cir. 1982) . 6 Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479, 484 (1965) ; see also Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347, 350 n.5 (1967) . 7 Laird v. Tatum, 408 U.S. 1, 15 (1972) ; see infra Amdt3.3 Government Intrusion and the Third Amendment.