The Orwell's perception of an ideal government is pretty much the same as Montesqueue describes in "Persian letters". They both seem to think that the best government would be one in which power was balanced among three groups of officials. As opposed to totalitarian regime of the Party, Montesque's ideal government would be the government elected by people and not a product of a despotic ruler's ideas. He, as well as the Orwell believed that the success of democracy- a government in which the people have the power - depended upon maintaining the right balance of power. Moreover, the only way of achieving this would be dividing power onto three branches: an authority that enforced laws (like a king), Parliament, which made laws, and the judges in courts who interpreted laws. According to Montesqueue it is called separation of powers'. Avoiding placing too much power on one individual or group of individuals would certainly prevent totalitarian governments of coming into......
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