Is Tennessee a Democracy?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : The entrance to the basement stood right beside a cashier's window where dozens of people were lined up to pay taxes on the day I visited.
46% : Jones told me that he was ruled out of order during a committee meeting because he'd said the leadership was "putting a Band-Aid on the issue" of school shootings; a few days later he was also told he had to remove a ban assault weapons pin from his jacket.
43% : The Constitutional Republicans' website explains that RINOs are different from themselves: "They raise taxes, they vote to silence the citizens, they won't protect private property rights.
29% : During a debate on a bill regulating abortion, Gloria Johnson told me, "I stood on the house floor for 45 minutes, the entire argument of the bill, and they refused to call on me."

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