Konstitusi yang hidup (bahasa Inggris: Living Constitution) adalah gagasan bahwa undang-undang dasar memiliki makna yang selalu berubah, berkembang, dan menyesuaikan dengan keadaan baru tanpa memerlukan amendemen resmi. Gagasan ini terkait dengan pandangan bahwa keadaan masyarakat saat ini harus dipertimbangkan ketika menafsirkan pasal-pasal dalam undang-undang dasar.[1]
Beberapa pendukung metode interpretasi hidup, seperti Profesor Michael Kammen dan Bruce Ackerman, menyebut diri mereka dengan julukan organis.[2][3][4][5]
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sunting- ^ Winkler, Adam. A Revolution Too Soon: Woman Suffragists and The "Living Constitution". 76 NYULR 1456, 1463 ("Based on the idea that society changes and evolves, living constitutionalism requires that constitutional controversies, in the words of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., "must be considered in the light of our whole experience and not merely in that of what was said a hundred years ago.")
- ^ The Holmes Lectures: The Living Constitution, by Bruce Ackerman
- ^ Sovereignty and liberty: constitutional discourse in American culture, by Michael Kammen
- ^ Can Pragmatists be Constitutionalists? Dewey, Jefferson and the Experimental Constitution, "organicism (or that a constitution is a living document, the meaning of which evolves with the changing values and norms of each new generation)"
- ^ [1], "Following the earlier Canadian constitutional tradition, the courts have shown little interest in an originalist approach and have taken a much more organicist stance in line with the "living tree" imperative."
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