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Scott，毕业于一所旨在培养高级翻译专业人才的翻译院校，擅长翻译各种与环境诉讼相关的法律文件。