They did not, therefore, call it a perfecting of the security, but an additional security, which it could not have been, if the first had been void; for the Parliament could not bind itself more than the crown had bound itself.
Burke clarifies that the additional security could not exist if the initial one was void, emphasizing the interdependence of parliamentary and crown obligations.
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