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document is also addressed to the courts. This is a
further delegation, and a delegation of a different
authority, to decide, not what the word means, but
whether the immediate addressee had authority to make
them mean what he did make them mean, or what he
proposes to make them mean. In other words, the
question before the court is not whether he gave the
words the right meaning, but whether or not the words
authorized the meaning he gave them. (55)
What Curtis so correctly discerns in the nature of applied
terminology, equally concerns populations, civil and military.
Unless processed in a uniform way, it would be quite impossible
to have delegation of functions and duties, and thus there
could be no centralized national groupings such as came into
existence after printing. Without similar uniform processing by