The system of checks and balances is a delicate set of balances between the various branches of the federal government, ensuring that each branch of government is unable to amass too much power. As it stands, the current impeachment process, which requires a simple majority vote by the House and 2/3 majority approval by the Senate, is an effective check on the president.
Opponents of such a view may argue that by the supermajority requirement by the Senate makes impeachment virtually impossible if the same political party controls both the legislative and executive branches. However, the impeachment of the Presidency is reserved for high offenses, and such grave offenses would most likely receive bipartisan support. If senators are to let a President who commits high treason continue holding office, they jeopardize their own office and will most likely face serious backlash from the general public.
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Bipartisan support is e necessity for impeachment, as the vacancy caused by a Presidential impeachment will leave America vulnerable, and invalidate a legitimate election that millions of Americans voted for. Allowing a single party to control the entire impeachment process will weaken the government as a whole.
The federal government, at least, for the most part, is relatively transparent in its inner workings, and such transparency was intentional as the Framers saw highly valued the importance of public scrutiny. This idea is expressed repeatedly within Federalist 70, which argues that a system that allows for the most accountability is that held by a single individual, as the failures of government can be easily pinpointed as the President's responsibility, something much more difficult to do with the legislative branch, where blame is often times shared. The executive branch, by design, is easily the most surveyed branch of government, under scrutiny by both Congress and the public alike.
The Presidential position was designed to already be an effective check on the Presidency, and making the impeachment process simpler would only lead to the destruction of the checks and balances system. The impeachment was also, by design, difficult, as the Presidential office was designed for longevity in the face of a much more powerful legislative branch. Under the Federalist 51, the Framers recognized that the legislative branch was the most powerful branch within the government, thus lowering the requirements for impeachment for the legislation would further empower the already most powerful branch of government, simply subjecting the executive branch to Congress' control and toppling the separation of government. There is simply no guarantee for a long administration can carry out its intended agenda if they were to be constantly under threat of impeachment by Congress.
The impeachment of the Presidency was intentionally difficult in order to ensure that the President could be held accountable but still could act upon their agenda without fear of retaliation by Congress. The process of impeachment is a difficult and arduous process, but it was made difficult by my intention. The current impeachment of process combines high levels of accountability with preventing the abuse of such a power by the legislative branch, maintaining the delicate balance of powers that is the system of checks and balances.
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