We must remember that to be politically correct in the late 1700s would have been to support the king of England. It would also have required standing in a straight line and shooting with fair warning at our opponents in a war. The short answer is that I might well be writing from New Orleans in French if the British colonies had practiced political correctness. While the colonialists were not big on political correctness, they were heavy into thinking and debating. They had great debates and correspondence pondering the selection of a federal government or a national government.
Libraries have collections of the federalist papers.
I wish our present congress or legislature gave so much thought to substantive issues. In the end, our founders created a republican form of a federal government. In Elian's case, that is the way it appears to be working out. Elian's dad would never get a fair shake in a Florida Court. So the federal government has intervened.