I suppose the reformation has not been acceptable, as it has been little followed. The lawyer-legislator is more likely to concern himself with questions concerning the language of proposed bills or with the constitutionality of legislation. The great usefulness of a competent lawyer in a typical legislature is principally a matter of his ability to detect and correct 'sleepers' and technecial defects in bills. Said one nonlawyer,'Lawyers draw up laws so nobody including themselves can understand them. It makes business for them.
Judges have to decide in courts what laws mean and sometimes they reverse themselves.
Laws could be drafted that would be clear and simple if they wanted to'. Another nonlawyer is quoted, 'Lawyers are lousy legislators because they have too much of a technical attitude. They can't look at it as a layman can. They can't see practical problems. They are too much interested in legal technicalities.