{
  "id": "take-back-our-country.regain",
  "term": "take back our country",
  "sense": "regain",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 19,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "A collective self that reads the walls on it as set by an out-group, and holds setting them again from within as its purpose.",
  "folk_gloss": "a call to restore control of a country to people who feel it has been taken from them",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collective-self.shared",
      "boundary.limit",
      "out-group.outside",
      "set.fix",
      "purpose.goal",
      "autonomy.self-governed",
      "grievance.held",
      "read.information",
      "wall.range-end",
      "hold.physical"
    ],
    "interaction": "A reading that the walls are now set by others is joined to a purpose of resetting them, so the phrase is both a grievance and a plan.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "a grievance turned into a purpose",
      "autonomy read as lost and recoverable"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "our-borders-our-rules.self-set",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "that phrase asserts the group sets its edge now; this one reads the setting as lost"
    },
    {
      "id": "grievance.held",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "grievance keeps a repair owed; take back our country names the group as the one to make it"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "take back our country",
    "take our country back",
    "taking back our country"
  ],
  "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-take-back-our-country.regain"
}