Living Constitution

A living Constitution is one that changes based on perceptions of the changing views of the public. As a practical matter, it means the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted however a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court feels. Such a constitution is often supported by conservatives who wish to abolish the very First Amendment by combining church and state into one all-powerful entity. In such a system, The Leader As Endowed By Our Lord God George W. Bush would be able to proclaim far-reaching, oil-rich lands as provinces of America

by declaring illegal, but holy, wars on them.

The phrase "living Constitution" was expressly used by the liberal four-Justice dissent in Rummel v. Estelle, 445 U.S. 263 (1980), and it has been implicitly embraced by the left side of the Court in numerous rulings.