That's not why our Founding Fathers worked for months to put on paper the United States Constitution, creating a free government that has lasted longer than any other in the history of the world.
Admirable as the new constitution is on paper (in this instance, a special aspen-wood parchment), it seems to make little difference in practice.
Pavlensky is a sort of absurdist descendant of Soviet dissidents, who demanded that the state follow its own constitution, which, on paper, guaranteed the rights to freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.
Whitehall's powers over Southern Rhodesia under the 1923 constitution were, on paper, considerable; the British Crown was theoretically able to cancel any passed bill within a year, or alter the constitution however it wished.
We were not alone in the commission, there were not just seven of us, we had you all there".] But as all the women at the Kandahar conference admitted, the law and the constitution are one thing on paper, and practices around the country, especially in the conservative tribal areas of southern and eastern Afghanistan, are quite another.
But maybe the Clean Air Act is like the old Soviet Constitution -- looks good on paper but in the real world it sucks.
The final aim is to disrupt the Dalai Lama's fifty-year-long nonviolent "truth and justice" campaign, to free the six million Tibetan people to be themselves in the special autonomous minority region offered them by the Chinese constitution, so far only on paper.
Tajikistan has a bold constitution that enshrines western values on paper.
"On paper, the constitution has bestowed some rights, but in real life the ordinary taxpayer cannot enjoy these.
The constitution of integrity is not written on paper, but on the hearts of men.
What matters is not the rights that exist on paper in the Constitution, but whether they can be exercised and enforced in practice.
