Landvarnarflokkurinn was an Iceland

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Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...

ic political movement

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 which operated from 1902 to 1912, founded because of discontentedness with a clause in the Icelandic constitution

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 that stated that the Icelandic minister should bring up cases in the Danish Council of State

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. The clause was in the constitution from 1903 to 1915, at which point the Danish king

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 ordered that it should be removed.

The founders of Landvarnarflokkurinn, who included Einar Benediktsson

Einar Benediktsson

Einar Benediktsson was an Icelandic poet and lawyer.Einar Benediktsson's poetry was a significant contribution in the nationlistic revival leading to Iceland's independence. To this end, he was active both in establishing Landvarnarflokkurinn in 1902 and as the editor of Iceland's first daily...

, Bjarni Jónsson

Bjarni Jónsson

Bjarni Jónsson is an Icelandic mathematician and logician working in universal algebra and lattice theory. He is emeritus Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University and the honorary editor in chief of Algebra Universalis...

 and Jón Jensson, were the most radical fighters for Iceland's independence

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of that time.