Which value important to America's success as a constitutional republic is best illustrated in this excerpt? Commerce makes men independent of each another, gives quite another idea of their personal value, persuades them to manage their own affairs, and teaches them to be successful. ... No country in the world has a more lively or concerned feeling for property than the United States and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward those doctrines which threaten to impair in any way at all the manner in which property is owned. - Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America Social Justice Laissez-Faire Populism Egalitarianism

Most of the colonists who founded the colonies that would become the United States, came from the Old World because they were tired of being chained under the yoke and control of the Aristocracy who owned most of the land and the economic opportunities that came with it.

In the United States therefore, the people chased Egalitarianism which is the principle that we are all equal and so should get equal rights and responsibilities. They believed that everyone deserved property rights and not just the nobility and so any laws that threatened this notion was looked down upon.