statutes are written in precise language that both courts and citizens can interpret, but the two interpret the law very differently. Also see lower courts passing laws that violate the constitution or a supreme court ruling that will take decades to get removed off the book.

No "average citizen" can read and understand the law. You have laws at all different levels that conflict, conflict of definition, and then budget bills and executive orders that can also change the laws and regulations.

This is why law firms exist. Our legal text has become so complex that you need a specialist to decode the meaning, and it is not cheap.