Excuse me, but 'it delegates' what exactly? Do you mean that, having no constitutionally granted power to micromanage the affairs of the nation, Congress may then delegate their legislative powers to departments and agencies so that those agencies may issue regulations with the force of law which effectively micromanage everything the people may do? That's what Congress has done, to be sure, but there is no constitutionalgrant of power for any such thing.
One problem with lawyers is that you boys base everything on a pharasaical examination of two centuries of commentary on the law rather than on the text of the law itself. You ridicule anyone who dares to suggest that the text itself is the law. This is the main reason that your profession is universally despised and distrusted.
No offense intended to you personally, of course.
Not at all. You simply ignore the principle that the law must be applied to the facts. That requires legal reasoning.
Sometimes it's obvious. Other times you have to reach back and make a determination of what the law was intended to accomplish.
Much of the law isn't in a text. It isn't in a statute. It's called Common Law, and much of our legal system is based on it.
There may be many reasons to despise lawyers, but you shouldn't base it upon a misunderstanding of what Law actually is.