ABSTRACT
The supreme court, which is called the great sanhedrin, consists of seventy-one judges. The great sanhedrin has exclusive jurisdiction to judge a case where a city or a majority of a tribe is accused of idolatry. The great sanhedrin judges the case of a person accused of being a false prophet. It has jurisdiction to judge a tribal president accused of a transgression entailing capital punishment. It has jurisdiction to judge boundary disputes between tribes. The nation does not embark on a voluntary war unless it is so decided by the great sanhedrin and acquiesced to by the king. The great sanhedrin and a prophet jointly determine who shall ascend the throne in the event of a dispute or if the king leaves no son to ascend the throne. The additional scroll of the torah which a king must write for himself is to be corrected by the great sanhedrin.
