Pedro de San Patricio
Gold Member
A living, or loosely constructed, constitution is one which is taken to be capable of change through judicial interpretation. One court can rule something constitutional, but then another court can later overturn that ruling and find the exact same thing unconstitutional. The intended meaning of the document changed with time and circumstance. The opposite concept is that of originalism, which posits that the original meaning is the intended meaning and any change must be formally amended into the document. I have to wonder, though, exactly how having a constitution which essentially says whatever the person currently in charge judges it to say is different than the person in charge proclaiming their opinion to be the way things are directly.