| Answering the critics, Mitchell Stevens portrays home schoolers as communitarians, not isolationists. |
| Regarding the Constitution there is a great debate between Constitutionalists and Communitarians as to which is supreme. |
| Rather than coercing behavior via laws, communitarians advocate persuading fellow citizens through shame and appeals to community norms. |
| When personal behavior needs regulating, we soft communitarians prefer exhortation to legislation and shame to jail. |
| Communitarians believe that there are some flaws in the liberal conception of justice. |
| Communitarians argued that man fundamentally is not a rights-bearing, property-seeking individual, but a social being who flourishes in stable associations and communities. |
