<span>The Manifest Destiny’s theoretical foundations behind the
conception date back to the first Puritan colonists, such as John Winthrop, and
his group’s clear desire to build a Shining City on a Hill or a new Jerusalem.
The concept that America and its Puritan creators had an ethical right and responsibility
to originate a purer, better world informed the idea of what came to be known
as “American Exceptionalism,” which is certainly an extension of Manifest
Destiny. Both terms indicate that by its very nature, and because of its establishment
and ideals, the United States has an ethical purpose to rule the western
hemisphere and to plan its supremacy, power, and values transversely the
continent, by force if required.</span>
