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I'm all for giving people the benefit of doubt, but no. They don't "really mean" that, otherwise they would have written "constitution" somewhere, and not wrote "has had" when they mean "currently active".
It's possible they misremembered someone who had a point, true, but they do not.
The problem is they're mixing up concepts of constitutional government, continuity in government, nationalism vs dynastic control, and the idea of the "natural lifespan" of democracies.