Sons of Liberty Radio with Bradlee Dean The Ten Commandments and How They Apply To Our Civil Laws Today The Ten Commandments, Antinomian Law, and the Fight Against Unconstitutional Executive Orders Bradlee Dean spends the hour tracing America's state constitutions, the Ten Commandments, and centuries of legal philosophy from Blackstone to Hamilton to argue that executive orders, gun restrictions, and abortion law stand outside God's moral law and the Constitution, folding in a recorded tribute from Dove Radio's Perry Atkinson and a call from Carl in Minnesota. State Constitutions and the God-Centered Founding Bradlee Dean opens the broadcast by reading oath requirements from early state constitutions in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and North Carolina, each mandating a profession of faith in God and Jesus Christ for men to hold public office. He notes that in 1892 the Supreme Court observed that all forty-four states then in the union carried some God-centered declaration in their constitutions, tracing the pattern back to the Declaration of Independence's claim that rights come from a Creator rather than government generosity. Dean contrasts a biblical view of government, where the state's authority is limited and leads to a republic, with a pagan view, where the state is treated as divine and authority becomes unlimited, producing tyranny. He quotes Thomas Jefferson calling the Bible the cornerstone of liberty and Andrew Jackson calling it the rock the republic rests on, then reads through preambles from Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Kansas, each invoking gratitude to Almighty God, before the show breaks for its theme music. Nullity, Usurpation, and the Moral Law After the theme and station identification, Bradlee Dean returns reviewing a point from the previous day's broadcast, the colonial jurist St. George Tucker's teaching that an act of Congress only binds when it is made pursuant to the Constitution, otherwise it is a nullity or, worse, an act of usurpation. He argues most modern government action functions as unconstitutional policy rather than law, quoting Thomas Jefferson's description of such acts as nugatory, and warns that public submission only emboldens tyranny. Dean explains that every state capitol and constitutional preamble opens by acknowledging the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and distinguishes ceremonial law, fulfilled in Christ, from moral law, which he insists remains binding and unchanged because it expresses God's own character. He cites theologian R.C. Sproul's exchange with a seminary professor to define antinomianism as disregard for Old Testament moral law, then runs through each of the Ten Commandments, arguing their continued relevance before the program breaks for advertisements and a listener testimonial. Carl's Testimonial and the Ten Commandments Today A caller named Carl from Delano, Minnesota offers a brief on-air testimonial crediting Sons of Liberty with guiding him through what he calls today's disinformation, before Bradlee Dean returns to the hour's stated topic, the Ten Commandments and how they apply to civil law. He asks listeners rhetorically who told them that stealing, perjury, adultery, and murder are against the law, arguing each prohibition traces directly to the Ten Commandments and that Christ established rather than abolished them. Dean brings in eighteenth-century philosopher Baron de Montesquieu's description of despotic power as independent of both men and constitutions, applying the term to officials he says rule arbitrarily rather than by God's moral law. He cites John Locke's line, carved above the Ten Commandments display at the Minnesota capitol, that tyranny begins where God's law ends, and repeats William Blackstone's maxim that no human enactment is law unless it conforms to divine law, tying the argument to America's acceptance of legalized abortion. Perry Atkinson's Tribute and the Founders on Virtue Bradlee Dean reads from Puritan theologians John Owen and Francis Turretin on grace and effectual calling before a recorded tribute airs from Perry Atkinson, president and general manager of The Dove Radio and TV, who calls Dean a longtime friend of the network and praises Sons of Liberty Radio as one of the country's top platforms for Christian truth. Dean follows with quotations from Patrick Henry, calling liberty impossible to preserve without justice, moderation, and virtue, and from Declaration signer John Hancock, who wrote that resisting tyranny is a Christian and social duty. Returning to his main theme, Dean argues that America's departure from God's moral law produced the sanctioned killing of roughly eighty million unborn children, and that the nation now faces consequences it brought upon itself. He invokes Napoleon's description of the Bible as a living power and Puritan writer Thomas Watson's warning that whoever defies heaven's mandates falls on his own back, framing current national troubles as deserved recompense. Blackstone, Natural Law, and the Cost of Lawlessness Dean expands on Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, reading that natural rights such as life and liberty come from God, not government, and that no legislature has power to abridge them, then contrasts that principle with what he calls scoundrels gutting the nation's laws. He recalls the sixteenth-century scholar Erasmus, whom reformer Martin Luther bested in debate, quoting Erasmus's own observation that people with the least talent show the most pride and still find fools to applaud them, a line Dean applies to modern celebrities and officials. He cites James Madison's description of government's end as judgment under God's moral law, and argues that ignoring that law breeds what he calls the fruit of antinomianism, quoting a passage crediting society's miseries to neglecting biblical precepts. Dean then replays the Gospel account of John the Baptist instructing soldiers to do violence to no man and accuse no one falsely, arguing politicians violate both commands whenever they manufacture wars through false accusations against other nations. Executive Orders, the Second Amendment, and the National Debt In the final segment, Bradlee Dean argues that executive orders, like any law, carry no force when they are not congruent with the Constitution, citing Marbury v. Madison's declaration that repugnant laws are null and void and Thomas Jefferson's writing that only laws made pursuant to delegated power bind the people. He walks through Article II's limits on presidential power, argues judges who legislate from the bench should be impeached under Article III's good-behavior standard, and insists restrictions on the Second Amendment, along with gun-free zones, were never lawfully authorized. Dean turns to the nation's roughly forty-trillion-dollar deficit, suggesting the figure may be exaggerated but blaming decades of unconstitutional spending and foreign aid regardless, and cites Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Paper number thirty-three on the Constitution's Supremacy Clause confining legal force to laws made pursuant to it. He closes the broadcast thanking listeners for their support before signing off until the next program.
