4.6 Progressive Construction

The craft: the living reading — the old text in the new world (the words' present-day meaning: the enactment-era's-and-today's gap bridged); the method: the generic-terms' evolving sense (the "communication" including the email; the "vehicle" including the drone); the rationale: the law's service to the living society (the statute's continuing utility — the obsolescence-by-reading's avoidance); the constitutional field (the progressive constitutional interpretation — the living- constitution doctrine: the fundamental rights' evolutionary reading); the critiques: the interpreter's temporal legitimacy (the dead-hand vs the living-judge's debate); the limits: the text's-and-the- original-structure's boundary. The Nepal faces: the progressive constitutional jurisprudence (the rights' expansion (the Godavari's Art 12 reading — the environment-in-life; the Pant's dignity evolution)); the "the constitution as a living document" line.