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" OBJECTIVES RESOLUTION AND THE CONSTITUTION OBJECTIVES RESOLUTION AND THE CONSTITUTION   By   Muhammad Zainul Abidin, Advocate Supreme Court, Lahore   Without dilating on the comparative values of the Constitution and the Objectives Resolution it is stated that the Constitution is the Supreme Law of Pakistan. The Objectives Resolution has joined the scheme of the Constitution by Article 2‑A through 8th Amendment in 1985.   The Constitution has been framed deliberately in a set form by the competent authority and is capable of being enforced by the judicial machinery of the Courts.   About the Objectives Resolution it is being said that unless its broad principles are transformed into precise rules like that of the Constitution by appropriate legislative measures it cannot be enforced with certainty through judicial process.   Manifest of the broad principles is in 3 distinct parts. The first part has   1. (1991) 2 KLT 71 at p. 79 2. Article 35 (Principles of Policy).   installed the Real Soevereignty in place of political sovereignty which is certainly an improvement on the practical democracy in force in America based merely on the social contract. In politics the sovereignty has no fixed locale and is shifting as the expediency and the conditions of the people and the state demanded.   The Real Sovereignty is based on the Truth of the Unity of God, the Universe and the Mankind. No doubt positive law provides a certainty in the legal system but it certainly does not guarantee an endurable system which is the object of Real Sovereignty.   The failures of positive law are accepted by the European jurisprudence as DIAS writes:‑‑   Outside the area of prohibition, restraint on liberty can only come…