This three-page undergraduate essay examines the political ideology of the Founding Brothers, and discusses how these principles affected the development of the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The author also analyzes the differences between Federalism and Republicanism, the role of Manifest Destiny in the expansion of America westward, and the influence that Manifest Destiny had on the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. The paper concludes that despite their differences on a number of issues, all Americans shared the same basic confidence in democracy and the belief that Americans were destined to inherent the entire continent.