If America is a democracy that respects other democracies then what is the "Manifest Destiny"?

Answer 1

The United States claims to respect other democracies, but this is not strictly true. We have, many times in our past, undermined duly elected officials of other nations if doing so was in our best interest. Take a look at our dealings in the more southerly parts of the Americas sometime. We tend not to like so much them electing left-leaning, antiUS leaders.

Manifest Destiny is another one of those embarrassments in our past. We decided, back awhile ago, that it was obviously our God-granted right to have a nation that stretched from sea to shining sea, and too bad about everyone else living there right now. This particular doctrine was what led to things like Wounded Knee and the Trail of Tears.

The US has its faults, and we often fall short of our own ideals. We need to face up to that so that we can improve and eventually become what we claim to already be.

Answer 2

America is not a Democracy, not any more than Europe or Asia. America is a continent with many nations, all except two of them are Democracies but it can be said that America itself is a Democracy.

Answer 3

the belief or doctrine, held chiefly in the middle and latter part of the 19th century, that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences.