Strict vs. Loose constructionism

The Constitution-is it a strict list of things the government can do or more of a framework? This has been debated since the ratification of the Constitution. My personal opinion? It's a framework. The Constitution was written more than two hundred years ago, and despite the brilliance of the founding fathers, there is no way they could have forseen what the new country was going to be like in the twenty-first century. At its beginning, America was a small, relatively insignificant country, tired after a long battle for independence. Now, it is one of the most powerful nations in the world at a time when information can travel across the globe in mere seconds, as opposed to a three-month voyage across the Pacific. If we limit our government to what is expressly stated in the constitution, our government will remain frozen in a time and place completely different from the world we live in today.