The New Jersey Plan was a proposal for structuring the government presented to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 by William Paterson. Edmund Randolph was the governor of Virginia and he refused to sign based on that the document lacked enogh checks and balances, leaving too much power to Congress.
I guess the theme is that you can't give somebody your work because Atlas was trying to give his work to Hercules which is a unresponsive thing to do and he's not taking responsibility for the work they gave him.
Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States owns the Americas and anything trying to undermine that power will be prosecuted. This also is the case for the Latin America