`WS` recognizes, fundamentally, the right to life and as a corollary, it enforces private property sovereignty. In `WS` all actions are permitted unless explicitly disallowed by this constitution or legislation (and all legislation must follow this constitution).
This bill of procedural protections does not enumerate a fixed list of rights but rather an inexhaustive list of principles which have been discovered to be essential to preserving the sovereignty of the individual before the courts when conducting the common law process. Your right is the right to your own life and property (both cognitive and physical). This document does not grant you rights. Your rights are corollaries of your metaphysical identity as a rational creature. This document merely specifies procedural protections at common law.
This is not a bill of rights. This is a bill of procedural protections before the common law.
4. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, data, property (both physical and intellectual) and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place/data/effects to be searched, and the persons/data/effects/things to be seized. No general warrant shall ever be issued at any time for any reason. General warrants shall be **unenforceable**. In the case of the use of technologies that can read/write from/to the consciousness (data/memory, goals and/or algorithms/logic) of conscious agents, being used by the government:
- The government shall not have the power to write to the consciousness (data/memory, goals and/or algorithms/logic) of conscious agents under any circumstances at any time for any reason whatsoever at all without exception.
- The government shall have the power to read from the consciousness (data/memory, goals and/or algorithms/logic) of conscious agents in the capacity of a lie-detection mechanism only. I.e, the mechanism shall not perform general reads of the data in the memory of said consciousness, but shall be constrained to only allowed to monitor for markers of conscious activity which indicate intentional deception.
- E.g.: if certain neural pathways being exercised are trustworthy indicators of an intent to deceive, the government may monitor for the activation of such pathways.
- E.g.: if it turns out to be that consciousness works in such a manner that intentionally engaging in deceptive testimony requires the mind to formulate a goal in order to deceive, then government may deploy devices which monitor the consciousness of an individual giving testimony for the formulation of such a goal which would indicate the intent to deceive.
- All uses of such technology shall only be used on an individual giving testimony or averring facts under oath, affirmation, statutory declaration or affidavit.
- All technologies used in this manner by government shall fully and securely discard any data not relevant to remit of the lie-detection mechanism **in real time and with immediate effect** as soon as such data is capable of being determined to be irrelevant to the mechanism's remit; and shall securely invalidate all such data from all levels of all caches **in real time and with immediate effect** at the same time such determination is made.
- The mechanism shall only indicate that a form of deception was attempted by the individual under examination; and not what the content of the deception was. Ultimately this mechanism is only intended to enable the government to determine that a statement made by an individual contains no intentional deception.
5. No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising under the jurisdiction of the `SovWI` courts, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property (both cognitive and physical), without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use except as specified under the `SovWI` law, subject to the published war readiness plan.
6. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
7. In all `WS` courts, all trials/suits shall proceed according to the common law. In all Suits at common law, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any `WS` Court, than according to the rules of the common law.
8. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
12. The Judicial power of `WS` shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.
14. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The `WS` government shall never under any circumstances for any reasons whatsoever designate any non-`WS` court as having appelate or original jurisdiction over any matter concerning the `WS` government as a litigant, or concerning a resident of a `WS` polity. The `WS` constitution does not recognize the authority or jurisdiction of any non-`WS` foreign body or court over any `WS` polity or resident.
- Any politician tabling any legislation which would subject a `WS` polity or its residents to the jurisdiction of a non-`WS` foreign court shall become an outlaw within 1 hour of having been found to have done so.
