present rights
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From 373 U.S. 526 - Watson v. City of Memphis · 1963Most cited · 580 citing opinions
The rights here asserted are, like all such rights, present rights; they are not merely hopes to some future enjoyment of some formalistic constitutional promise. The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now and, unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.