Also, food for thought.... how does the legislative branch override the executive other than by impeaching the president?
Some powers are reserved to the executive,
but a veto-proof majority (or extraordinary circumstances that
motivate aisle-crossing) can do a certain amount.
(Not that I see it happening in the next two years, but)
Congress sets the budget. If they submit austerity budgets,
and have the balls to stand firm, they can smack the state around
a whole lot.
So let's say repubs win a huge prize in November, but short of a 2/3rd majority in both houses. They can do anything except override a presidential veto. So the repubs immediately move to impeach Biden. Let's say they are successful and get some dems to get onboard and Biden is gone. Great.
The experience with Clinton is that it doesn't work out for the opposition party.
People would have to be like
three times as ripsh¡t about Biden's policies
in order for the GOP to escape fatal blowback for impeachment -
way too many voters would view it as "politics by other means".
And you
really don't want to impeach but fail to convict.
Even if they can override the veto the executive is still a huge problem, unless legislation can exist or be passed that either overrides or nullifies certain kinds of executive powers.
By design, actual enumerated powers have at most a check-and-balance.
And some may be virtually absolute.
I would imagine a super majority congress could do the same thing. Alter the rules, change the law and if they are worried about losing control in the future change it back before they lose power thereby robbing a new incoming political party the ability to use the same power. I believe that's what our founders wanted and why they gave so much power to congress or the legislative bodies (fed and states). This way the institutions closest to the people could sieze control of an out of control government or a president who wanted to declare himself emperor.
That's way too loose. The whole point of most powers of most branches
is that they come from the Constitution, and there ain't
nobody getting the states
to amend
that for an advantage that only lasts 2-4-6 years before the pendulum swings back.