balancing test

balancing test. A judicial doctrine, used esp. in constitutional law, whereby a court measures competing interests — as between individual rights and governmental powers, or between state authority and federal supremacy — and decides which interest should prevail.

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译者Clara，毕业于国内知名法学院，擅长翻译各种与衍生工具相关的法律文件。