You are scaring me, we had to have a civil war to get amendments to over rule Dredd Scott decision.

Chris Hedges:

"This is where we are headed. I do not say this because I am a supporter of revolution. I am not. I prefer the piecemeal and incremental reforms of a functioning democracy. I prefer a system in which our social institutions permit the citizenry to nonviolently dismiss those in authority. I prefer a system in which institutions are independent and not captive to corporate power. But we do not live in such a system. Revolt is the only option left. Ruling elites, once the ideas that justify their existence are dead, resort to force. It is their final clutch at power. If a nonviolent popular movement is able to ideologically disarm the bureaucrats, civil servants and police—to get them, in essence, to defect—nonviolent revolution is possible."

(Truth Dig). Happy November 2013.

One week ago Judge Sandra Watts Of Texas was in the news - initially blocked from voting a regular ballot thanks to the Voter ID law just taking effect.
She refused the provisional ballot offer and She had to sign an affidavit affirming her identity in order to vote.

Watts worried that women who use maiden names or hyphenated names may be surprised at the polls. “I don’t think most women know that this is going to create a problem,” the judge said. “That their maiden name is on their driver’s license, which was mandated in 1964 when I got married, and this.

And so why would I want to use a provisional ballot when I’ve been voting regular ballot for the last 49 years?”