The answer would be: Shackled to their <span>seats
This allegory derives from Plato's opinion on how most people think about their intelligence.
According to plato, most people love to secluded themselves from other people on how we think our actual enlightment is, but the shackles indicates that we actually follow the same pattern like other people when we're believing that we're more enlighted than them</span>
It is called an unfunded mandate, when the federal government gov. compels state governments to obey costly regulations, but does not reimburse those costs.
<span>Unlike today, citizens during the gilded age expected the Federal Government to have little to no effect on their daily lives.</span>
