# Wellspring: Bill of procedural protections: Apologia

## The forerunning amendments:

Some commentary where deemed necessary:

- On the 5th and 10th amendments: The `WS` constitution does not recognize any notion such as, or of similar nature to "substantive due process". 
- On the 7th amendment: The `WS` constitution wishes to make it extremely clear that all trials are to be trials by jury. Somehow at the time of writing there are non-jury trials in the forerunning republic for sums exceeding twenty dollars, so this must mean that somehow, the 7th amendment wasn't clear enough. Being unsure which part was unclear, `WS` wishes to emphasize this point and hopefully ensure that it is clear this time.
- On the 12th amendment: "Citizenship" is a tenuous concept in `WS` and we may need to massage this phrasing.

## Procedural protections:

Hopefully this is extremely clear: no `WS` polity shall ever be made subject to the jurisdiction of any non-`WS` court, whether that be the International Criminal Court or the European Court of Justice or the Caribbean Court of Justice or any other court system which is a non-`WS` court system.