Najib has consistently denied wrongdoing and has consolidated power by sacking critics within his ruling party and cracking down on dissenting opposition party leaders, activists and lawyers.
In other recent steps to dismantle intellectual dissent, party officials in 2016 engineered the takeover of a Chinese history magazine that had served as a forum for liberal former officials and scholars.
After the election, Evatt attempted to purge the party of industrial groupers, who had long dissented from party policy, and who were predominately Catholic and anti-communist.
Without a dissenting vote, a party whose past arguments on peace and war have sometimes been very damaging united in support of a "precise and proportionate" military response, consistent with the principles of international law and avoiding civilian casualties "as far as possible".
These include dissenting Federal Circuit judges, parties and amici who are not "patent insiders," and the executive branch.
But even before last November's elections, Mr. Corzine was a dissenting voice in the party.
As students at Magdalen College, Oxford, voted to spend £2,200 on cucumber sandwiches, Pimm's, grilled beef, beer and ice-cream at a jubilee garden party, one dissenting JCR member expressed his disgust.
But with midterm elections less than five months away, House leaders -- driven in part by dissenting voices in their party -- decided that their members needed to confront the Iraq issue directly.
Mr. Noda must still win over dissenting members of his own party, who include a former party powerbroker, Ichiro Ozawa.
The groups included European Jews, Gypsies and other ethnic groups as well as members of dissenting religions and political parties, homosexuals and the physically and mentally handicapped.
