# one nation (whole)

*Ordinarily means:* the whole country treated as a single united people, across its divisions

A collective self that makes its boundary wider across the groups inside it, reading each as part of one whole whose walls it keeps for all.

- Computed level: L17 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [collective self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared), [boundary](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-boundary.limit), [in-group](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-in-group.inside), [maintenance](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-maintenance.upkeep), [make](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-make.verb), [wide](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wide.spatial), [across](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-across.spatial), [groups](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-groups.collection), [inside](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-inside.spatial), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [part](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-part.relation), [whole](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-whole.complete), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [keep](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-keep.maintenance)

**Through:** The groups inside the boundary keep their differences, but the self model reads them as parts of one thing; keeping the walls of each becomes keeping its own.

**Novel properties:**
- differences kept inside one boundary
- every part's walls read as the whole's

## Examples
- Francis Bellamy's 1892 Pledge of Allegiance pledged loyalty to 'one nation, indivisible'. *(politics)*

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-one-nation.whole.json*  
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