There is more than one type of Ton. Please use the appropriate variation from the list below. Pounds to Metric Tons (or Tonnes) ConvertTable. Pounds to Long Tons (UK) ConvertTable. Pounds to Short Tons (US) ConvertTable.
In England, the Glorious Revolution of 1688 led to a constitutional monarchy restricted by laws such as the Bill of Rights 1689 and the Act of Settlement 1701, although limits on the power of the monarch ('a limited monarchy') are much older than that (see Magna Carta). constitutional monarchy, limited monarchy or parliamentary monarchy (also called a crowned republic) is a form of government in which governing powers of the monarch are restricted by a constitution.
A communist system of government replaced the old, decadent, corrupt monarchy, after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Lenin created a socialist type of government, not a communist type of government.The government created by Lenin was just as repressive and autocratic as the monarchy that had been replaced.enin created the Bolshevik Party which seized governmental power from the Russian Provisional Government, which had been set up in place of Tsar Nicholas' II's rule.