Ex Unum, Pluribus! | Frank Bacon's LIBER TY | TIRMINUS

FRANK BACON “is a bit of a grassroots movement, dedicated to breaking US into smaller, more functional nOtions”. It provides some extra information on each of the new, smaller American nOtions, “and a fresh map so that anyone can submit a new proposal.”

From the always awesome Strange spaM blog:  July 6, 2007  tReAdmills  [Web](https://www.tedmills.com/2007/07/ex_unum_plurbius/) 

I have long been interested in what I often think of as “the American language” — the words with which our founders and those who inspired them expressed not just the lofty aim of creating a country that enabled the greatest possible extent of individual liberty, but the means that would work best, the tradeoffs involved, the fears of what could undermine it and how.

That was one of my motivations for my 2016 Lines of Liber ty, which includes many of the most inspirational words from those who not only wrote about liberty, but acted to expand it or resist the encroachments that seem to always threaten it.

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But that awareness — what was once America’s real “common core ” — often leads me to despair of the abyss between that model and our current political culture, which violates the spirit of liberty far more often than upholds it.

Few phrases from our country’s creation illustrate that disconnect better than E Pluribus Unum: out of many, one.

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