Fasces (/ˈfæsiːz/, (Italian: Fasci, Latin pronunciation: [ˈfa.skeːs], a plurale tantum, from the Latin word fascis, meaning "bundle")[1] is a bound bundle of wooden rods, sometimes including an axe with its blade emerging. The fasces had its origin in theEtruscan civilization, and was passed on toancient Rome, where it symbolized amagistrate's power and jurisdiction. The image has survived in the modern world as a representation of magisterial or collective power. The fasces frequently occurs as acharge in heraldry, it is present on an older design of the Mercury dime and behind the podium in the United States House of Representatives, it is used as the symbol of a number of Italian syndicalist groups, including the Unione Sindacale Italiana, and it was the origin of the name of the National Fascist Party in Italy (from which the term fascism is derived).

While the swastika – also a symbol with a long previous history – was deeply stigmatized by its association with Nazi Germany, the Fasces did not undergo a similar process because of association with Italian Fascism; its use remains acceptable in various legitimate contexts.

It should not be confused with the related term fess, which in French heraldry is called afasce.

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@Thomas Ryan Ok, understood. I learn better when I write shit down.

Also, "The axe represented the power over life or death through the death penalty, while bundled birch twigs symbolise corporal punishment."

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It symbolized power becuase they were carried by Lictors. Lictors were basically the bodyguards for Consuls and Praetors in ancient Rome. Their significance is that they were the only weapons allowed within the city of Rome.

It's mozzarella stick tied to a shovel

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fasces emoji pls

I'm fasting tomorrow

Fast yesterday

@Thomas Ryan @Walls Of Steel @Vice Commander Hunt thanks guys, I'll write that down.

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We use the fasces and not the swasitka and all that because America was founded in the image of Rome, so there is that connection, and the fasces is very commonly used in traditional American architecture and design.

I bet that windmill swastika would look nice with a fasces in the middle

Yeah, the US is sort of like a modern Rome... at the end stages.

I like the congressional one

Fasces is the symbol of a republic pretty much

Look at this old quarter

Damn, never taught that in school... Or college.

@Tedium windmill swastika? sonnenrad?

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Damn, looking up washington statues on google gets some good ass pictures

look at the modern shit in the background

Yep

This old coin

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