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The issue of property rights was raised in a lawsuit filed against the Town of Washington last Friday by Sid and Mary Catherine Worley who have been trying for over a year to build a house on Main Street. They were turned down by the Architectural Review Board (ARB) and the Town Council over the composite materials that would be used in construction. Bottom line was the house would be "architecturally incompatible" with surrounding properties in the historic district.
As buildings age, they frequently take on historic significance. Does historic significance outweigh historic principles of individual liberty and private property rights?
We'd like to share our thoughts on this question by quoting former U. S. President William Howard Taft who also was Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. In 1913, he said:
. .next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civi* lization than any other institution established by the hiiman race.
"If it is to be eliminated from the rights secured to the individual, then we shall see disappear from our community the mainspring of action that has led men to labor, to save, to invent, to devise plans for making two blades of grass grow where one grew before, to increase the production of all human comforts and to reduce their costs ...
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