Strict construction

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Strict construction is the idea that courts should practice judicial restraint by abiding by what the Constitution literally says. The converse of this is the idea that the United States Constitution should be interpreted as a "living document", creating new rights that aren't explicitly in the Constitution. The Constitution itself spells out the procedures for amending the document to include new rights. Strict constructionists respect this process, while others simply bypass it.