The correct answer is sought to avoid involvement in European <span>political struggles
They were isolationists and believed that the United States should care only for its own well-being. For example, Monroe did this through the Monroe doctrine which established that if any European nation tried to colonize any country in the Americas that the Americans would go to war to prevent them and send them back to Europe.</span>
the virginia plan called for a bicameral legislature and representation would be based on population, and the new jersey plan had a unicameral legislature and each state had the same # of votes
