Here are a few good quotes from his chapter "The Natural Law of the Family" in the book Natural Law: A Lutheran Reappraisal.
On page 208, he says...
A compelling case could be made that human personhood is fundamentally familial, not individual or statist. Political philosophers in the modern West, by contrast, have generally erred toward one of two extremes: either individualism or else statism. As a result, a third option too often has been overlooked - namely, that the family is both the proper foundation of human society and the formative reality of human personhood.On page 209, McPherson states...
Both the libertarian and the statist regard all persons as equal individuals, in principle identical and interchangeable as to their rights and responsibilities.Finally, here's a quote from page 210...
Human personhood, in fact, is neither strictly individual nor strictly collective.
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