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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In all this procedure I can discern neither the solid sense of plain dealing nor the subtle dexterity of ingenious fraud.
Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.
Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.
Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.
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