Excerpt from The Am Ha-Aretz: The Ancient Hebrew Parliament, a Chapter in the Constitutional History of Ancient Israel The following paper was read before the Professors and students of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and their invited guests, on April 29, 1909, as one of a series of popular lectures. Being printed in its original form, indulgence is asked for the redundancies and the deficiencies incident to that mode of presentation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.