 To remedy this imbalance between rights and responsibilities in the US, political communitarians proposed a moratorium on the manufacture of new rights and changes to our “habits of the heart” away from exclusive focus on personal fulfillment and towards concern with bolstering families, schools, neighborhoods, and national political life, changes to be supported by certain public policies. Notice that this proposal takes for granted basic civil and political liberties already in place, thus alleviating the concern that communitarians are embarking on a slippery slope to authoritarianism. Still, commmunitarian thinkers quietly lifted the call for a moratorium on the minting of new rights, presumably because of growing consensus that marginalized groups, such as same-sex couples seeking the right to legally sanctioned marriage, have a legitimate claim to new rights (Macedo, 2015) and would be paying the price for the excesses of others if the moratorium is put into effect.