The Giver By Louis Lowry: Different Types Of Government

Why do we have different governments? Governments have more of an influence on every day life than people think. They can affect every aspect of life foe some people. It promotes individuality in more ways than one. There are many different types of government. There are many different ways certain governments are good. Throughout history different types of governments have flourished at different times. They are all have their own unique methods of governing the people. Different types of governments are different in many ways. A totalitarian type of government contains an absolute style. Most of there time there are limited freedoms and things are chosen for you. In the book The Giver by Louis Lowry there was an absolute government. The controlled everything from what people’s jobs where to how much food came in to even what children they have. In the book they chose spouses, kids, jobs, and almost everything for their citizens. They never let their citizens really know what the outside world was like due to the amount of censorship they used on them. A form of a totalitarian ruler is a dictator. A dictator is someone who dictates a nation by how he thinks things should be. The person who rules can make any rule they want without anyone standing in his way. Peter the Great was a part of a totalitarian type system of government. He built an elite
The rulers have limited power as anything they say has to first go through the senate or whatever the country calls the group of people that vote on bills. The president goes to to other countries to make alliances, visits places, and can veto a bill made by congress. The president has to deal with a lot of stuff and ultimately has to make a lot of decisions. The United States has a democracy. Our president’s name is Barak Obama. He leaders out country. He tells people when we should declare war and he has more political power than anyone else