Your "No" isn't followed by anything that refutes the post you quoted .Skans » 09 Sep 2022, 10:29 am » wrote: ↑ No. The United States is a Republic of individual states, but with a central, binding government. Yet, with each state retaining separate governance apart from the central government; with the central government only having a limited, specified purpose. Or, at least that's how our Republic started out.