Iceland 1930

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Identifikator:: 1830571079

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221162

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Iceland 1930

Edition:: 2. ed.

Place of publication:: Reykjavík

Publisher:: Ríkisprentsmiđjan Gutenberg

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 193 S.; Tab., Kt., Taf.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Constitution and law

Collection:: Economics Books

22 When the consultative assemblies were created for Denmark in 1834, it was ordered that Iceland should send two representatives to. the assembly for the Danish islands convened at Roskilde. But this ar- rangement did not satisfy the Icelanders who demanded their own national assembly; and in answer to these demands the King, in 1838, created a commission of 10 royal officials who were to assemble in Reykjavik every two years to examine Icelandic affairs and make suggestions to the government; and later, in 1843, a consultative body for Iceland was created and called Althingi. By the Danish constitution act of 1849 the king renounced his ab- solute power in Denmark. But as this constitution did not include Ice- land, the king retained his absolute power there. Then the Icelanders began their struggle for independence under the leadership of Jén Sigurdsson. This struggle was twofold: a struggle for the recognition of Iceland’s independence of Denmark, and a struggle for a liberal constitution. When this controversy had lasted for 20 years, a bill was passed by the Danish Rigsdag, and ratified by the king (on Jan. 2nd 1871), defining the position of Iceland within the realm. This law was never submitted to Althingi for approbation, which conse: quently denied the validity of the act. — According to this law Ice- land was an integral part of the Danish realm, with autonomous power in matters of local concern. In the so-called common aifairs of the realm Iceland was to have no voice. On Jan. 5th 1874, the king, with- out consulting Althingi, issued a constitution for Iceland based on the law of 1871 and dealing with its local concerns, granting legislative power to Althingi conjointly with the king in the country’s local con- cerns. The same year a special ministry for Iceland was created in Copenhagen, at the head of which was placed the Danish Minister of Justice. The constitutional struggle was soon renewed, and in 1903 modifications in the constitution were granted, providing, among other things of less importance, a minister for Iceland residing in Reykjavik and capable of speaking and writing the Icelandic language. But this did not put an end to the controversy, and in 1907 the king appointed a commission consisting of Danes and Icelanders to draft a new agree- ment defining the position of Iceland in the realm. But the draft, sub- mitted by the majority of the commission in 1908, was not passed by Althingi. At last, in 1918, a new commission consisting of Icelanders and Danes was appointed to settle the relations between the two countries. The delegates met in Reykjavik, where the negotiations, bequn on the 1st of July, ended on the 17th of the same month by

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