Can you please tell me how the ratification of the US Constitution in 1788 represents an emerging American identity as a country and why?

The ratification of the US constitution set many ground rules for what the government could and could not do. It also outlined what the government was, and what its main goals and purposes were. This showed the true ideas and beliefs of a country that gained independence a little over a decade prior to the ratification of the document.

The answer is b