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ποΈ 22 August 2024
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0:00.0 | Christian nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule. |
0:07.0 | If they gain more power, it could mean fewer rights for you. |
0:12.0 | I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely |
0:15.0 | American I'll take you inside the movement. Listen to Extremely American |
0:19.8 | from Boise State Public Radio, part of the NPR Network. |
0:24.0 | If you've heard of the Third Amendment, |
0:26.0 | it might have been as part of a punchline. |
0:28.0 | I take the Third all the time, every day. |
0:32.0 | And then if somebody tries to call me on it they go well what is the third that's when I take the fifth |
0:36.9 | It's the one about quartering troops two words that have probably been rarely said side by side since about the late 1700s. |
0:45.6 | But here's what it actually says. |
0:47.6 | Amendment number three. |
0:49.6 | No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner, |
0:56.0 | nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. |
1:01.1 | So in more modern terms, the army can't live in your house. |
1:09.2 | Right, so at first glance, this amendment maybe doesn't come across as the most relevant to Americans today. |
1:16.0 | I've seen other examples and memes of you're dating someone and they're in the military, like it's an excuse to like force them to go home or something like that, you know, say, |
1:24.6 | Third Amendment. |
1:25.8 | People have thought of lots of possibilities. |
1:28.9 | And don't you thank God every day for that Third Amendment? |
1:31.8 | The other afternoon, this was Tuesday, I was in my apartment and the buzzer rang, |
1:37.0 | and it was a hundred and first airborne. |
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