Yes. But we’re a banana republic now.
We have not had a real republic for a long, long time and that is if we ever had one in practice as opposed to in literature. I have, for most of my life, heard the ranting about our democracy and have heard from many that we are supposed to have a democracy and from many others that a democracy and a republic are the same thing. I would say that we have an oligarchy which is by far the most common form of government and commonly results in tyranny which is blatantly obvious now in the so called UNITED States which are in fact in a state of DISunity.