dissenter• A later residence in Northamptonshire was licensed in 1673 for dissentermeetings, in spite of his earlier bad reputation there.• But in practice, if most countries want to go ahead with something, they may well ignore a lonedissenter.• Yet the aidpackage passed in an instinctively isolationist Congress with only a modesthandful of dissenters.• It even published the minority views of dissenters.• Sovietdissenters were persecuted more actively and severely in 1980 than had been the case in 1976.• They did not honor the dissenters.