Who Makes The Rules

In the novel the giver, the elders are responsible for most of the rules and how the community works. The rules are pretty much rock solid and some of them might never change. When there is a rule they think they need to change they take it into study which is a rather good thing. You wouldn't want people to just come up with protests basically just crying d begging you and annoying just to change the rules, you wouldn't even have the time to think about it you would just change the rules because of annoying citizens,but that's crazy right? Oh wait. I think that our real world community is flawed (which it should be because nothing is perfect). I'm saying that nagging to the government and not leaving them a chance to investigate is crazy. Here in Egypt, whenever there is something we don't like, instead of taking it in a professional way and choosing one person to represent us and have them host meetings we just take to the streets crying and screaming until we get what we want. I don't mean that all communities are to  be as overly strict s the one in the giver, but we should at least have a sense of authority.