Explain how the United States sought to define the nation's democratic ideals and change their society and institutions to match them.

bismarck believed in using force

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d) a constitutional amendment

in griswold v. connecticut (1965), the supreme court ruled that a state's ban on the use of contraceptives violated the right to marital privacy.

basic principles: federalism, separation of powers, checks and balances, judicial review, representative democracy, limited government, rule of law, individual rights and responsibilities, consent of the governed, majority rule, popular sovereignty, equal protection.