Craig’s Reviews > The Essential Scalia: On the Constitution, the Courts, and the Rule of Law > Status Update

But then I tell them, "If you think that the Bill of Rights is what sets us apart, you are crazy." Every banana republic has a bill of rights....The bill of rights of the former "evil empire," the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was much better than ours....

So the real key to the distinctiveness of America is the structure of our government.