Manifest Destiny is a term that was used in the 19th century to designate the belief that the United States was destined, even divinely ordained,Lawrence Davidson: Christian Zionism as a Representation of American Manifest Destiny
Rodrigue Tremblay: The myth of Manifest Destiny, Take Two
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Caldwell, Wilber W. American Narcissism: The Myth of National Superiority, p. 91.
Anders Stephanson: Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean. Sometimes Manifest Destiny was interpreted so broadly as to include the eventual absorption of all North America: Canada, Mexico, Cuba and Central America. Advocates of Manifest Destiny believed that expansion was not only ethical but that it was readily apparent ("manifest") and inexorable ("destiny"). Although initially used as a catch phrase to inspire the United States' expansion across the North American continent, the 19th century phrase eventually became a standard historical term.

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