{
  "id": "our-borders-our-rules.self-set",
  "term": "our borders our rules",
  "sense": "self-set",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 16,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "A collective self that narrows its boundary by reading who crosses into its land as a wall it alone sets.",
  "folk_gloss": "the claim that a country alone decides who may enter it",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collective-self.shared",
      "boundary.limit",
      "cross.pass",
      "land.geography",
      "alone.state",
      "set.fix",
      "autonomy.self-governed",
      "narrow.spatial",
      "read.information",
      "wall.range-end"
    ],
    "interaction": "The group claims the edge of its land as a wall set only from within, so any other setter, a neighbour, a treaty or a court, reads as outside it.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "autonomy claimed over the edge itself",
      "every other setter of the edge read as outside"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "autonomy.self-governed",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "autonomy is walls set from within; this phrase claims it for the wall that is the group's edge"
    },
    {
      "id": "take-back-our-country.regain",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "take back our country reads its walls as now set by others; this phrase asserts it sets them"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "our borders our rules",
    "our country our rules"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-our-borders-our-rules.self-set"
}