I thought it may be a good idea to study what the antinomians believe and why, therefore, I am asking if you know what their beliefs are, and why they believe the way they do?

The common usage means that "grace" is all that is needed for salvation; good works are not required or important after a born again experience.

The spiritual declension which had been manifest in England just before the time of Wesley, was in great degree the result of Antinomian teaching. Many affirmed that Christ had abolished the moral law, and that Christians are therefore under no obligation to observe it; that a believer is freed from the "bondage of good works." Others, though admitting the perpetuity of the law, declared that it was unnecessary for ministers to exhort the people to obedience of its precepts, since those whom God had elected to salvation would, "by the irresistible impulse of divine grace, be led to the practice of piety and virtue," while those who were doomed to eternal reprobation "did not have it in their power to obey the divine law."
Others, also holding that "the elect cannot fall from grace or forfeit the divine favor," arrived at the still more hideous conclusion that "the wicked actions they commit are not really sinful, nor to be considered as instances of the violation of the divine law, and that consequently they have no occasion either to confess their sins or to break them off by repentance." Therefore, they declared that even one of the vilest of sins, "considered universally an enormous violation of the divine law, is not a sin in the sight of God," if committed by one of the elect,"because it is one of the essential and distinctive characteristics of the elect, that they cannot do anything which is either displeasing to God or prohibited by the law."
This monstrous doctrine is essentially the same as the Romish claim that "the pope can dispense above the law, and of wrong make right, by correcting and changing laws;" that "he can pronounce sentences and judgments in contradiction . . . to the law of God and man." Both reveal the inspiration of the same master-spirit,--of him who, even among the sinless inhabitants of Heaven, began his work of seeking to break down the righteous restraints of the law of God.

Here is what I found from Miriam-Websters Dictionary:

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Pronunciation: "an-ti-'nO-mE-&n
Function: noun
Etymology: Medieval Latin antinomus, from Latin anti- + Greek nomos law
Date: 1645
1 : one who holds that under the gospel dispensation of grace the moral law is of no use or obligation because faith alone is necessary to salvation
2 : one who rejects a socially established morality
- antinomian adjective

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GodBless,
Will

This, Daryl, is a hang over from dark days of Papal supremecy.
The union of state+church demands that "moral society" is glued together by that union, and any disagreement was equal to anarchy. So if the Church says that this or that is moral, the society must obey; the magistrate must enforce.

The RCC church dictated that "the common faith" insured the safety of market,king and society.

Therefore any religious non-conformity was seen as treason to the state and heresy to the Church.
Banishment or death were the penalities.

Many early Protestant Reformers went to extremes and urged "faith only" in protest to the RCC culture's rituals,masses, fast days, church taxes, etc. It was a swing due to the good, but as we see today, the Decalogue has been thrown out as well.