For seventeen years the Democrats had twice elected the governor and once secured the Assembly, while the Republicans, holding the Senate continuously and the governorship and Assembly most of the time, had come to regard themselves the people's lawmakers and the representatives of executive authority.
This quote outlines the political dynamics between Democrats and Republicans in New York State over a seventeen-year period.
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