 This meant that Hamilton assumed that the major check on the president would be that, like any citizen, he would not be above the law and could, in fact, be prosecuted in criminal court. And Justice Sotomayor also quotes other framers of the Constitution, in particular James Wilson. He was the guy who came up with the idea that we the people of the United States as a whole are sovereign. And also James Iredal and Charles Pinckney, all of whom at various points in the convention and after said that they imagined the president would be liable to criminal prosecution