The bureaucrats have great influence on legislation and decision making as they are the ones who are being look up to or as a front men in the government in which made them to have intelligent or a decisive way of having to provide decisions that may be of help for the people and the government.
The meeting of the First Continental Congress was called to in response to the Intolerable Acts. They were called the Coercive Acts in Great Britain. They are also sometimes referred to as the Punitive Acts.