# What's the most undemocratic thing US politicians ever rammed down the public throat?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-undemocratic-thing-us-politicians-ever-rammed-down-the-public-throat/742261
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [January 5, 2016, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-undemocratic-thing-us-politicians-ever-rammed-down-the-public-throat/742261 "2016-01-05T20:06:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 32

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2016, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-undemocratic-thing-us-politicians-ever-rammed-down-the-public-throat/742261/32 "2016-01-06T02:43:45Z")

</div>

> [@Lumpy](#):
>
> **What’s the most undemocratic thing US politicians ever rammed down the public throat?**

I believe that was the Statesmen-Fellatory Conscription Act of 1893. It’s not much remembered now, as it only applied to Negroes.

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-undemocratic-thing-us-politicians-ever-rammed-down-the-public-throat/742261)._