The term “multinational corporation” is a modern concept. It is not really applicable to the period in which the English Virginia Company or the Dutch West India Company existed, as the global economic and political system was fundamentally different.

They certainly didn’t have much to do with the political system of the United States. English Republicanism and Whig liberalism is where the roots of American democracy lay.

I wasn't mentioning democracy, politics, or liberalism. At all. That has nothing to do with corporations.

If some corporations of the time were not multinational, they wouldn't have acted outside their own homeland.

Are you saying there were no investors or shareholders involved in colonizing the Amrericas?

Quite simply today's multinationals are direct decendants of the ones of old.

I naturally assume it can be easily seen that today's global economic and political system is fundamentally different than it was just a few years ago.

What alternative motivation would be an accurate explanation for the organizations founding the overseas colonies?

And who else would have been capable at the time?