Roots Before Branches provides the analytical framework behind the Civic Formation Trilogy's central thesis: the ceiling of government competence is set by the floor of citizen capacity. Moving through fourteen historical eras, from colonial salutary neglect through the digital age, this volume examines how the American founding generation was formed for constitutional self-government, and traces how that formation has drifted across two hundred and fifty years. Each era is examined through a consistent lens: the world citizens inhabited, what was forming them, what they feared, what they believed, and where the pressure broke. The book argues that modern citizens risk something different from the tyranny the founders resisted: a voluntary and gradual surrender of self-government through comfort, distraction, and institutional dependency. Roots Before Branches ends with urgent questions and no easy answers, setting up the diagnostic instrument of Book III.
外文書商品之書封，為出版社提供之樣本。實際出貨商品，以出版社所提供之現有版本為主。部份書籍，因出版社供應狀況特殊，匯率將依實際狀況做調整。
無庫存之商品，在您完成訂單程序之後，將以空運的方式為你下單調貨。為了縮短等待的時間，建議您將外文書與其他商品分開下單，以獲得最快的取貨速度，平均調貨時間為1~2個月。
為了保護您的權益，「三民網路書店」提供會員七日商品鑑賞期(收到商品為起始日)。
若要辦理退貨，請在商品鑑賞期內寄回，且商品必須是全新狀態與完整包裝(商品、附件、發票、隨貨贈品等)否則恕不接受退貨。
