The phrase "actual right" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a right that is genuine or currently applicable, often in legal or philosophical contexts.
Example: "In this case, the actual right to the property is disputed between the two parties."
Alternatives: "real right" or "valid right".
All that's clear is it studiously avoids recognizing the actual right to say no to destructive resource projects.
Hence Mr Abbas will have to accept that Palestinians can have no actual right to return to the homes they lost after Israel was created in 1948.
It is the same mistake the court made in Bowers v Hardwick, a case from 1986 that found no fundamental right to "homosexual sodomy" in the constitution, when the actual right at stake as the court later clarified in its Lawrence v Texas decision of 2003 was one of personal intimacy.
A century after the Civil War, the act, in abolishing many forms of discrimination employed by the Southern states, such as poll taxes and literacy tests, finally turned the legal right for African-Americans in those states to vote into an actual right to vote.
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From questioning – completely without justification – Obama's birth and religion, to opposing virtually all Obama's policy initiatives, to slandering the president personally, to denying his actual right to hold office, the right wing formally and informally waged a campaign not only to discredit our legally elected head of state but, in essence, to erase him.
The number of actual right-wing organic farmers, however, appears to be quite small.
Unable to explain why the actual right-wingers hated J.F.K. as much as they did, Stoll insists that a conspiracy of leftish doves who surrounded J.F.K. — Sorensen and Schlesinger, in particular — warped his words and purposes retrospectively: a conspiracy theory every bit as loony as any from the buffs.
"I knew I had no actual rights," Gunn told me.
That would leave Americans wondering what our actual rights might be, burdened by a final, pervasive problem: the mendacity of the executive branch in defending these programs.
The real agenda here is obvious: If a federal bill recognizes that there is such a thing as domestic violence in same-sex families, then that implicitly recognizes the legitimacy of those couples and that could lead – gasp – to giving them actual rights.
