We consider them a symbol of American manifest destiny, yet we share them politely with Canada.

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Perhaps, like Manifest Destiny, it will continue to expand until the land runs out to the sea.

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But what is being billed as manifest destiny for Internet commerce is going to cause big headaches all around.

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In the 1960s it poured money into roads, pipelines and universities, on the assumption that it was the state's manifest destiny to grow.

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We saw it even earlier than that in the presidency of James Polk, who wanted to take the orthodoxy of Andrew Jackson to a program of Manifest Destiny.

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It's especially evident in the places where the Puritans first landed and built their first settlements, where explorers traveled westward to fulfill the country's manifest destiny, and to purchase or take land by force.

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