The Intolerable Acts was a law passed by the British Parliament in order to punish the Bostonians for the Boston Tea Party, in largely because the amount of money the British lost due to the Tea Party. The Intolerable act led the colonist to come together and for the First Continental Congress, this was their first real solid move toward the Revolution and their own self governed state. <span />
No, it is generally false that clouds reflect the majority of incoming infrared radiation back out into space, since only roughly 31% of all incoming radiation from the Sun is reflected back into space.
Representative democracy, thats what the US has too.