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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.

Re. John McCain's NBC status.

This is only indirectly related to your conversation about SR511, but I thought you might find it interesting. While I was reading Vattel's "Laws Of Nations" for another discussion, I noticed this paragraph:

§ 217. Children born in the armies of the state.
For the same reasons also, children born out of the country, in the armies of the state, or in the house of its minister at a foreign court, are reputed born in the country; for a citizen who is absent with his family, on the service of the state, but still dependent on it, and subject to its jurisdiction, cannot be considered as having quitted its territory.

This is, of course, only meaningful if you accept the notion that Vattel's work was influential on our Consitution (Ben Franklin certainly thought so); Vattel makes it clear that the accepted practice among countries at the time would grant McCain citizenship equal to having been born inside the country.

It's really a loophole for NBC status, since Vattel was clear in Book I, Chapter XIX, § 212. Citizens and natives that a NBC is born to two citizens, in the country. However, according to Vattel, John McCain is qualified to be President; Barack Obama is not.