Margin of Appreciation (United States)

In the United States, Margin of Appreciation is the concept the Federal Court of the United States have developed when considering whether a member State of the United States has breached the Federal Constitution. The margin of appreciation doctrine allows the Court to take into account the fact that the Federal Constitution will be interpreted differently in different member States. Justices of the Federal Court are obliged to take into account the cultural, historical political, moral, ideological, and philosophical differences between the member State in question and Government of the United States. The margin of appreciation is remotely similar to, but different from, the concept of subsidiarity.

The concept of margin of appreciation has since been adopted by several other States of Kobol and by the Kobol Court of Justice and other USKO institutions.

Concept
Margin of appreciation is the word-for-word translation of the  phrase "marge d'appréciation", a concept used in a number of Courts in North Aegea, among them the Federal Court of the United States and the Supreme Court the Federated States. It means, roughly, the range of discretion.