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Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

Why do we use it?

It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).

Where does it come from?

Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..”, comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don’t look even slightly believable. If you are going to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn’t anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of text. All the Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary, making this the first true generator on the Internet.

 

Chris Szaz

Christopher Szaz is a near Washington, D.C. native, having grown up there and spending most of his childhood and early to mid-adulthood in that dynamic metropolis. A history buff, he initially got into history and presidential/constitutional impacts via the family's World Book encyclopedia collection. Additionally, his father, a former political science professor, was a fixture on Capitol Hill as a human rights lobbyist for over 30 years. In that time, he got to know the likes of Goldwater, Dole, Bush Sr. and B1 Bob Dornan and many others of note, personally. Steeped in such a background, Christopher took an avid interest in politics, parties and even worked a bit on the Hill as a young man. Seeing the country, it's policies and especially it's parties fall to rampant corruption, he teamed up years ago with ConPart co-founder Lynn Vogel, to help both set the record straight on the Constitution, it's powers and the authority it gives the citizens of this country. While holding the corrupt current parties to the fire, while helping to educate the populace about both that and the need for Replacement Party formation. A former IT professional, who also has run his own web design business for over 20 years, he built the Constitutional Patriot website nearly a decade ago, as a vital tool for spreading this message, along with Vogel.

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