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It's our duty to maintain a consistent interpretation, to assure a fair application of the law to all people and their posterity. Inconsistent interpretations allow creep in the meaning of words and clauses, and consequently the fair application of the law.
Indeed. The ability to predict what the law is going to be held to mean by knowing what it has meant is the basis for the idea of the rule of law. Anything else is just Rule of Man with fancy window-dressing.