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General Court

 
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n.
  1. A legislative body having judicial powers in colonial New England.
  2. The state legislature of Massachusetts or New Hampshire.

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The General Court is the shorthand name for the:

This term also formally applied to the:

The term "General Court(s)" is also the correct English translation for Cortes Generales, the national parliament of Spain; the name is usually left untranslated in English-language texts.


 
 

 

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