Residents of a coastal community are | LSAT 73, Q2, LSATHacks

LR Question 2 Explanation, by LSATHacks

QUESTION TEXT: Residents of a coastal community are resisting the…

QUESTION TYPE: Principle – Strengthen

CONCLUSION: Residents want to stop a landowner from building on a landscape that had been used in a painting by a famous painter.

REASONING: The building would hurt the community’s artistic and historic heritage.

ANALYSIS: The family wants to build a house. They have a legal right to do so.

The community has an artistic interest in not having a building built. To support the argument, we need to show that this community interest somehow restricts the family’s legal right to built on their property.

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1. The passage isn’t talking about preserving a historic building! Instead, it’s talking about preventing a building from being built.
2. This tells us the community should buy the land. That’s no good. We’re trying to support the argument that the community has a say in how the land is used even if they don’t own it.
3. This principle tells us that the artist could ask the landowner not to build a building. But the artist is dead! This is no help.
4. CORRECT. In this case, the community does have a historic and artistic interest in not having the new building built. So this answer suggests the family’s right to build is constrained.
5. This talks about what the law should say. But the stimulus said there’s no law against building a building. So this doesn’t help the argument that the landlord still shouldn’t build a building.

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