More on "To the President of the United States"

A reader emails about my post on the unknown origins of the Chief's "To the President of the United States" toast at the Supreme Court Historical Society dinner. He writes

Its origins pretty plainly lie in the elite adaption of the Loyal Toast in the United Kingdom -- simply "The Queen," as it was for most of my life, or "The King" -- and has been a feature of U.S. military and civic dinners since at least the late 1800s. It absolutely reeks of undiscerning Anglophilia -- an affliction this country can't seem to shake off -- and I'm not surprised that the Court's historical society perpetuates such a un-republican tradition.

This supports my head-of-state theory and the problem with making the same person head of the state and the government.The connection to the U.K. takes it another state by making the head of state the sovereign, the embodiment of the nation, something we supposedly discarded in 1776. Of course, given how Trump seeks to govern and the power Republicans seem intent on giving him, perhaps it fits.