{
  "id": "national.political",
  "term": "national",
  "sense": "political",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "national",
  "domain": "adjective",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "about a people set and the place they occupy",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "groups.collection",
      "world.place",
      "occupied.spatial",
      "sets.grouped",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "people are grouped with a place to make a set",
    "novel_properties": [
      "co-located sovereignty",
      "shared territorial identity",
      "bounded political membership"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The United States Census counts residents every ten years to redistribute congressional seats.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Schengen Agreement allows passport-free travel among 26 European countries, defining a shared national border policy.",
      "domain": "politics"
    },
    {
      "text": "India's 1947 Partition displaced over 14 million people along newly drawn national boundaries.",
      "domain": "history"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "american.national"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "national",
    "nationals"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Definition was factually incomplete—it leaned on unlisted spatial and grouping concepts essential to 'national political' as a construct. Added missing constitutive components. Definition retained as "
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-national.political"
}