The state government that probably came the closest to the one proposed in The People The Best Governors was:

[LuckettB]

A) South Carolina
B) Pennsylvania
C) New York
D) New England
E) Massachuessetts

[Buenchico]

You've posted on a UK site (where not many of us are experts on American history) in the early hours of the morning here (so that there aren't many of us about anyway!).

I'll leave you to work out whether Pennsylvania (which created the first relevant constitution) or New England (which followed the Pennsylvania model) is the correct answer, by reading 'Later Developments' here:
http://books.google.c...t%20Governors&f=false

While we welcome questions (and answers!) from anywhere in the world, questions specifically related to the USA are more likely to find answers on a US website, such as one of these:
http://answers.yahoo.com/

http://www.answerbag.com/

Chris

[factor-fiction]

I'm not sure whether this is Histrory research for a university degree or a quiz question but maybe you could read an article such as this
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/1833653