Sgt. Major, would you expound on the differences between revolution and rebellion? I think we are dancing around the same thoughts from different angles. Ballots are backed by bullets, or the possibility of their use to protect the rights of minorities. World War II veterans in a small town in Tennessee were agreived by a corrupt local administration, so they took up their rifles and changed it. The Second Amendment guarantees the other nine. We live in a republic, not a democracy. Those who want to do away with the Electoral College do not understand that it protects the rights of small, less populated states, just as the existance of the Senate does.