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Where did it say: "Nonbinding Senate Resolution 511"??? Are you saying that the Senate that voted to accept Obama's electoral votes does not know what is meant by the term "natural born citizen"???. Then I guess their acceptance of his electoral votes was likewise non-binding.

It's non-binding because it was not sent to the President to be signed into law. And the reason why it was never intended to be signed into law is because it deals with a matter that the Senate has no jurisdiction over. The Senate could not declare John McCain a natural-born citizen unless the law first said he was. Anymore than they could declare he was not a natural-born citizen if the law said he was.

I guess to settle that question the Senate asked to take a look at his birth certificate and he showed it to them without hesitation, or they wouldn't have put that in the resolution, would they???

Can you point out just where that non-binding resolution refers to McCain's birth certificate? Or any other documentation?

It's non-binding because it was not sent to the President to be signed into law.

So it was like when the Senate votes to accept or reject the results of the electoral college, right???

And the reason why it was never intended to be signed into law is because it deals with a matter that the Senate has no jurisdiction over.

So the Senate has no jurisdiction over the application of the clause "natural born citizen" when it votes to accept or reject the results of the electoral college.

The Senate could not declare John McCain a natural-born citizen unless the law first said he was. Anymore than they could declare he was not a natural-born citizen if the law said he was.

But the Senate can vote to reject the results of the electoral college for a candidate who is not a "natural born citizen". So that makes this Senate Resolution 511 was perfectly within the purview of Senatorial business and binding on those 98 senators in that vote.

Can you point out just where that non-binding resolution refers to McCain's birth certificate? Or any other documentation?

It doesn't. And yet they declared that he was born on a military base even without it. Therefore the Senate should have had no problem producing an SR511 for Mr Undocumented himself. So where is it???

Oh that's right. They can't and they couldn't because BOTH of his parents were not U S citizens and therefore he can't be a natural born citizen, according to the Senate's own definition of the term.