Abstract

Considering that proportionality also defines the conditions for a prevalence between norms within a balancing, specifically through the two laws of balancing, the paper contraposes the balancing schemes with a norm conferring a liberty and with a norm conferring a social right. The main claims underlying that contraposition is that both balancing schemes convoke similar sequential proportionality tests and that proportionality is applicable in the same way. The paper also analyses cases of underinclusiveness in social rights, sustaining that they are not a matter of unsuitability, but, differently, a matter of proportionality in the narrow sense.