Someone who experienced it and was there when it happened
You must go to the US Patent Office
Depending on the time you mean "born" (Independence, when the Constitution was ratified, etc) all states had state legislatures and governors, who were responsible for the long-term affairs of each state.
Some of the things that were really emphasized was the right of liberty and America becoming its own country. They also wrote about taxation and they trashed the British King in the document. As for the second one, I don't really know...sorry
