Frequently, polidiots, and many democrats and presstitutes, refer to the United States as a democracy. Others find this aggravating because, unlike in a democracy where citizens vote directly on laws, in the United States, elected representatives do – and, therefore, the U.S. is a republic......
However, both democracy and republic have more than a single meaning, and one of the definitions we provide for democracy closely resembles the definition of republic given above: “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.”
So if someone asks you if the United States is a democracy or a republic, you may safely answer the question with either “both” or “it depends.”
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/republic
Yes and we also are/were a Federation of independent States.
In republics, laws are made either directly or indirectly by its component members. In the US, that means the people and the states.
Since the states foolishly booted themselves from the senate in 1913, it was only a matter of time before progressives neutralized the House of Reps as well.
Today, ninety-nine percent of US lawmaking is done by exec branch agencies.
Therefore, the US is not a republic.