Midrash for Sanhedrin 40:16
רב ושמואל חד אמר תפסח בסוף העולם ועזה בסוף העולם וחד אמר תפסח ועזה בהדי הדדי הוו יתבו וכשם שמלך על תפסח ועל עזה כך מלך על כל העולם כולו
said: The elders of the generation made a fit request, as it is written, Give us a king to judge us.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I Sam. VIII, 6. ');"><sup>23</sup></span> But the am ha-arez<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'people of the land', 'rustics', Talmudic term for illiterate or vulgar people. ');"><sup>24</sup></span>
Sifrei Devarim
whence it was ruled: A king breaches (the fence of others) to make way for himself (to go to his vineyard or his field), and he may not be held back (from doing so). He may broaden roads for himself, and he is not held back from doing so. The path of the king has no limits. And all of the people take of the spoil and place it before him, and he takes the prime portion. (He chooses first and takes half of all the spoil.)
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