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Connection to the US Constitution

The purpose of the US Constitution was to introduce a new way of governing America. A great change was needed in the United States, due to the constant fighting between the rebelling colonists and the English crown. Before the US Constitution was adopted, the monarchy that had tried to control America since its beginning was living in the allegorical cave. They were ignorant of the people's freedom and rights, and weren't open to any type of change.

The main focus of the //Allegory of the Cave// was that people's "eyes are of two kinds...either from coming out of the light or from going into the light," (Plato). The eyes of the English crown had been staying out of the light for their whole existence. When the English colonists were tired of being treated as slaves with extreme injustice, they began to branch out and search for other ways to live their lives. In the //Allegory of the Cave//, this time in history would be when the prisoners of society began to venture out of their cave that they had lived in for so many years. They had been waiting for their whole lives for the day when "the prisoners are released," (Plato).

This widely approved idea that "the citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states," (US Constitution), wtih no previous qualifications necessary, opened the flood gates for individuality, unfearing of the consequences. Although the ignorant, English loyalists tried to punish the revolutionaries for their free-thinking, they had enough power to break out of the prison that was the cave for good. The US Constitution was drafted in order to force England to see the sunlight. The colonists' destinies were altered for the better when it was proposed that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude," (US Constitution), would be permitted in the United States.

What limits people from becoming what Platos considers "enlightened"?