Read the quotation about a vision for American society after the American Revolution.

"An equality of property, with a necessity of alienation, constantly operating to destroy combinations of powerful families, is the very soul of a republicwhilethis continues, the people will inevitably possess both power and freedom; when this is lost, power departs, liberty expires, and a commonwealth will inevitably assume some other form."

According to this speaker, what is at the root of a republican society?