 We should conclude that it is not merely possible for an agency or a person to make law by the use of language; it is a central technique of legal ordering (and of the rule of law) for the law to confer authority on persons and agencies to make particular legal norms and general rules of law. The reasons of political morality for doing so are indeed a dignified ground for the content of the law, although the techniques that enable the effective allocation of legal power also lend themselves to abuse. And the moral value of the allocation of legal power and its potential for abuse both depend on human language: the most prodigiously useful set of tools for the articulation of a policy and for the conferral and for the exercise of power.