which amendment has lodging of troops?
<answer> The 3rd Amendment, which prohibits the federal government from lodging military personnel in your home. <context> Perhaps another route is available, using an amendment so rarely cited that the American Bar Assn. called it the runt piglet of our Constitution. It's the 3rd Amendment, which prohibits the federal government from lodging military personnel in your home. Advertisement Many Americans know that the 1st Amendment protects free speech and religious freedom, that the 2nd protects the right to bear arms and that others establish the right to a jury trial and freedom from cruel and unusual punishment.