What's the difference between eminent domain and manifest destiny?

Eminent domain is the method that a government, whether city, state, or national uses to take land away from a private citizen.

Say your family has lived on a plot of land for say 80 years, and over time, the land around you is bought by businesses and turned into retail property. When the residential land is in the "way" of "progress", and the landowner refuses to sell, then the government steps in and basically says, "your land is our land now, so get off."

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Destiny can be (roughly) defined as the inevitable future of an individual. We might say, for example, that it was the young Abraham Lincoln's destiny to become President of the United States. From our point of view, this seems an inevitable part of history. We can argue about the extent to which young Abe shaped his own destiny, but that at least is what the word means. Coincidence is quite different: understood quite literally, it's when two things happen at the same time. However, we normally only use it when two things happen at the same time and are unrelated. For example, let's say it's 1865 and you go to the theatre the night that Lincoln is assassinated. Assuming you're not John Wilkes Booth and know nothing of the impending assassination, the fact that you choose the very night Lincoln is killed to go to the theatre is just a coincidence. The two things are not related. As you can see, destiny and coincidence are very different things. If you want to think of it in logical terms, consider the following (in quasi-logical notation): If (p and q) then r. If this is valid, and p, q and r are all events, and p and q occur before r, then r can be said to be an inevitable future event given p and q. This is like destiny. Given p and q, r is destined to happen. If p and q happen at the same time, then they are coincidental. In our everyday use of the word, we would also require them to be unrelated events (at least to a reasonable extent). A real-life fleshing-out of (p&q) -> r might be the following: "If you are outside without shelter and it rains, then you will get wet." The getting wet follows inevitably from the premises. It can be said to be your destiny. The two facts that it's raining and that you're standing outside without shelter are coincidental.

Manifest destiny was the belief that the christian deity gave the Americas to Europeans, and anyone already living there was subject to forcible conversion, relocation, or death.

Eminent domain is the power of local governments to buy land from a property owner at rock bottom cost in order to use their land for building roads, etc.

One is the POWER of the established government. The other is the POWER of man to create government.

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