general assembly

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General assembly could be used as the name for an official meeting of the members of a union, church, association, or similar organization, or of their representatives,.

More specifically, a general assembly could be one of the following:

Governing bodies of international organizations

• The United Nations General Assembly
• The General Assembly of the Organization of American States, the main body of the OAS
• The FIA General Assembly, an international motor-racing organization

National legislatures

• General Assembly of Uruguay

• The General Assembly of the Parliament of New Zealand, the former name for the combined upper and lower houses of parliament and the Governor-General of New Zealand

• General assembly, the de-facto parliament of rebellious Ireland between 1641 and 1649 (see Confederate Ireland#Constitution)

Sub-national legislatures in the United States, Canada or Switzerland

• The official name of the state legislature in several states in the United States:
  • Arkansas General Assembly
  • Colorado General Assembly
  • Connecticut General Assembly
  • Delaware General Assembly
  • Georgia General Assembly
  • Illinois General Assembly
  • Indiana General Assembly
  • Iowa General Assembly
  • Kentucky General Assembly
  • Maryland General Assembly
  • Missouri General Assembly
  • New Jersey General Assembly
  • North Carolina General Assembly
  • Ohio General Assembly
  • Pennsylvania General Assembly
  • Rhode Island General Assembly
  • South Carolina General Assembly
  • Tennessee General Assembly
  • Vermont General Assembly
  • Virginia General Assembly

Also:

• The lower house of the legislature in the state of New Jersey, the New Jersey General Assembly

• A General Assembly (or meeting) of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, the unicameral provincial legislature

• The legislature in several of the former British colonies in North America

• The meeting of the Landsgemeinde of all citizens, used as an institution of direct democracy in some Swiss cantons

Governing bodies of Christian churches

• General Assembly (presbyterian church), a supreme governing body, such as
  • The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
  • The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland
• The General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, representing Unitarian churches in the United Kingdom
• The General Assembly (Unitarian Universalist Association), representing member congregations in the United States
  • See also List of Christian denominations#Presbyterian and Reformed Churches

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