Constitutionalism has a variety of meanings. Most generally, it's "a complex of ideas, attitudes, and patterns of behavior elaborating the principle that the authority of government derives from and's limited by a body of fundamental law." These ideas, attitudes and patterns of behavior, according to one analyst, form "a dynamic political and historical process rather than as a static body of thought laid down in the eighteenth century." A political organization's constitutional to the extent th… (More on Constitutionalism)