All that a Constitution typically does is setup the structure of government, establish laws, and act as a legal guide for how laws are made and enforced. Anyone that complains about a constitution not doing anything else — like Sam Hyde complaining that it doesn’t act as a literal force field to stop violations — is being disingenuous and trying to strawman the whole legal reality.

Yes, just waving a constitution Isn’t going to make anything happen or any bad person change their mind about anything, but as a legal document it has legal power over the whole system and its laws. Just as waving laws doesn’t prevent criminals from breaking those laws, but it forms the legal justification for arresting those same criminals, convicting them and putting them in a prison.

Laws are just wiring on a piece of paper, but that piece of paper decides who goes to prison. All of that is downstream from a constitution. If you still think all constitutions and laws are just “a piece of paper” then go break your country’s laws and then tell that to the police and the judge. “Laws are just writing on a piece of paper!”