Yes. The government is using a constitution as the framework.
The Constitutional Convention
1787
A constitutional republic
George Washington presided over the deliberations of the US Constitutional Convention. He also served a one of the delegates from Virginia.
The Congress called for the Constitutional Convention to address problems in governing the US.
Yes. The US is a Constitutional Republic.
Some of the facts about the suspension of constitutional rights in the US during the US Civil War was limited powers that were weakened further by the Bill of Rights.
The Amendments
(in the US) A Constitutional Democracy.
The US Constitutional Convention was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The year was 1787.
Good old Ben Franklin was the oldest member of the Constitutional convention.
There was no constitutional convention in 2010 or at any other time since the US Constitution was ratified.