Typical examples include the German Constitution before 1870 and the current British Constitution. In his 1802 book The German Constitution, German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel pointed out how ancient norms still governing German life became obstacles to a modern, unified German state. The US constitution quietly blends rigidity with silent adaptation over timeAlthough the US constitution has remained largely unchanged, in practice it sits somewhere between a written constitution and the British tradition. A common law constitution is a “living” constitution. Unlike the living constitution approach, originalists believe that the constitution must be interpreted based on the intentions of its 1787 framers.