“Natural born” comes from English common law.
You totally misunderstand what SR 511 meant. He was born outside the United States (Panama was NOT U.S. soil, nor is any military base of the U.S. in a foreign country; Panama was LEASED to the U.S.). The federal law at the time of his birth was that a child born abroad of two U.S. citizens is a citizen at birth. That’s all SR 511 said. It simply affirmed the provision of the law that existed in 1936, which as a matter of fact, is the same provision in TODAY’S law regarding the status of children born outside the U.S. to two U.S. citizens.
See http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/1401.html.
Interesting, that you think our Founders would defer to such a concept.
I don't misunderstand a thing, as far as that ludicrous SR 511 is concerned. It was a collegial effort to provide cover fot one of their own, Constitution be damned, that's what it was.