Lawyers should not be excepted from the rules of English to the contrary they like judges must be held all the more strictly there for in their uses of English the rights of men and the existence of rule by law rather than themselves depends.
Thus while a lawyer and most of all a judge has every insentive in the world to ignore and redefine the application of English to any law written. The rules of construction and common law were suppose to bind them to the original understand as demonstrated in both words and historic practice. Otherwise judges and lawyers would be rulers rather than mere judges and lawyers.
Well yes, yes they are, ask any state that has had their State Constitutions abrogated by a single Federal Judge. "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." --October 11, 1798 John Adams