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It’s more obvious with a specific example.

Write a law that makes penalties for speeding without directly defining the speed limit on every road. Then write a law giving the department of motor vehicles the ability to define a different speed limit for each stretch of road.

As such government agencies aren’t actually creating laws, but the laws are written to give their choices legal weight.



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