General assembly

General assembly

"General assembly" could be:

International

*The United Nations General Assembly
*The General Assembly of the Organization of American States, an inter-governmental body in the Americas
*The FIA General Assembly, an international motoring organization

Christianity

* General Assembly (presbyterian church), a supreme governing body, such as the
**General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
**General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland
**"See also List of Christian denominations#Presbyterian and Reformed Churches
*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

United States

*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
*The lower house of the legislature in the state of New Jersey, the New Jersey General Assembly
*The legislature in the former British colonies in North America

National

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

*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
*The "landsgemeinde" of all citizens used as an institution of direct democracy in some Swiss cantons
*"General assembly", the de-Facto parliament of rebllious Ireland between 1641 and 1649 (see Confederate Ireland#Constitution)

*Generally, an official session of the members, or representative members, of a union, church, association, or similar organization.


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