This chapter examines how academic freedom is linked to the “living Constitution” debate even as the words “academic freedom” do not appear anywhere in the text of the U.S. Constitution. It first considers the notion that “academic freedom” should be treated as an “implied” First Amendment right by looking at the actual text of the First Amendment. It then discusses the debate over whether the Constitution is a living document by citing the right of privacy as implied in modern constitutional law. It also revisits the first mention of the phrase “academic freedom” in a Supreme Court case, Adler v. Board of Education of the City of New York (1952), which upheld New York's “Feinberg Law.” Finally, it explores the Supreme Court's unwillingness to formally recognize academic freedom as a distinct right due inpart to an egalitarian, anti-elitist impulse in constitutional law.