Legislatures cannot resolve all problems alone and depend on other decision agencies.

Evidence

If you answer these questions in the negative, think about what the answer means. It means, does it not, that a legislature is inesrapably dependent upon other agencies of decision - that in the solution of problems such as those with which the Act deals a whole system of institutionalized procedures is needed? — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 1716

Categorization

• DEFINE: States plainly Hart-Sacks’ central principle that statutes are only one component of an interlocking decision system.
• XREF: Connects to the ch19 claim that statutes emerge as skeletons agencies flesh out, and to the ‘many questions might be put’ passage below. — connects to: Congress often acts as a ratifying agency for agreements reached outside it. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 1379; Courts refuse to invent meaning where an empowered agency has already regulated. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 1701