America has never been a Representational Republic.
Answer this.
From whence does said representation emanate?
What created our representation?
Have you put the cart before the horse?
You already know the answer, A Constitution was written and the representation was created therein.
A Constitutional Republic.
The Constitution created a Representative Government.
The House is the Peoples Representatives,
(We got screwed when they limited our reps and our government was broken that day)
The Senate is the States Representatives,
The oval office and VP presiding over congress is representing the Federal Government.
That is the 3 tiered system and Congress has specific limited roles they have exceeded.
Same as the 3 co-equal branches, there is supposed to be checks and balances all over that are continually ignored because nobody calls them on it, they are all doing it and trading stuff off.