This Friday Radio Ranch becomes a long Brent Winters common-law session. After a platform opening and a short discussion of a Clarence Thomas documentary, Brent answers a mining-law question and uses it to discuss the Mining Law of 1872, BLM regulations, information returns and OMB control numbers.
The middle of the programme ranges through habeas corpus, authority, oaths, color of law, Romans 13, cross-examination, whistleblowers and a story from Sayles’s Argentina years. Winters repeatedly contrasts delegated authority with what he argues people can actually give to government.
The final hour turns toward jurisprudence, biblical language and meaning: Hammurabi, Roman civil law, common law as due process, juries, Plato’s Republic, the Articles of Confederation, fixed meanings, context, Noah Webster and Voltaire’s admonition to define terms.
Clarence Thomas documentary: recommended and compared with Brent Winters’s early life.Mining Law of 1872: basis for the mining-law discussion.Bureau of Land Management mining regulations: discussed as modern regulatory overlay.Paperwork Reduction Act / OMB control numbers: discussed in relation to information returns.Passport application warning box at travel.state.gov: source for the affidavit discussion.John Milton Gregory: The Seven Laws of Teaching, recommended by Brent Winters.CommonLawyer.com: Brent Winters’s site and course/resource hub mentioned on air.Winterized Bible translation: Brent Winters’s translation project discussed late in the show.Oxford English Dictionary: Darrell cites it while discussing word meaning and context.Noah Webster dictionary: raised during the late discussion of biblical definitions.Plato: The Republic, discussed in relation to republicanism and common law.