homogeneous entities so that they can be applied. If allowed 
any grace or life such as is naturally theirs, they would not 
serve their practical, applied function.

     I have shown that the theory I offer you is based on a 
     natural virtue in words themselves. Let me state this 
     theory of interpretation dogmatically before I turn the 
     coin over to show that it conforms with the actual 
     practices of draftsmanship.
          Words in legal documents—I am not talking about 
     anything else—are simply delegations to others of 
     authority to apply them to particular things or occasions. 
     The only meaning of the word meaning, as I am using it, is 
     an application to the particular. And the more imprecise 
     the words are, the greater is the delegation, simply 
     because then they can be applied or not to more