[mlo]

"It bound the Senators not to oppose McCain's electoral votes when they came before the Congress, and that is pretty binding."

It did no such thing. But that's not the point.

"SR511 disagrees with you. It incorporates Vattel's and Bingham's definition of "natural born citizen"."

No it did not. There is no such reference in it, and it doesn't create any definition at all. You are misreading it.

[Uncle Chip]

It did no such thing. But that's not the point.

It did too and that is the point. It was a determination aka decision aka resolution based upon the stated facts -- one of which was that he was born of "American citizens" [plural].

There is no such reference

Baloney, their use of the term "natural born citizen" follows the same meaning of the phrase as used by Vattel and Bingham.

it doesn't create any definition at all.

And why should it create anything??? It simply used the same old standard historical definition used by Vattel and Bingham that the Founding Fathers understood when they penned the words into the Constitution.