I want to echo David’s point, and additionally note:
(1) Jefferson never said the quote that you (and many others) attribute to him.
(2) “Democracy” is not the same thing as “pure democracy,” and it’s always annoying when people (always libertarians, IME) use someone’s use of the term “democracy” to provide a lecture on republicanism *as if* the person were somehow under the mistake belief that we lived in a pure democracy. Here is a definition of “democracy” from Merriamwebster.com:
“a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections 2: a political unit that has a democratic government”.
When people say that we live in a “democracy” or that something is or is not “democratic,” this is what they are getting at.
(3) I had some trouble following the rest of your post concerning the federal constitution and the state constitution – specifically, I’m not sure what Indiana legislation you believe is unconstitutional.
