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A general assembly is a meeting of all the members of an organisation or shareholders of a company.

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Specific examples of general assembly include:

Churches

  • General Assembly (presbyterian church), the highest court of presbyterian polity
  • General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, highest court of the Church of Scotland
  • General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, highest court of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland
  • General Assembly (Unitarian Universalist Association), annual gathering of Unitarian Universalists of the Unitarian Universalist Association
  • General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, umbrella organisation for Unitarian, Free Christian and other religious congregations in the United Kingdom
  • General Ordinary Assembly, advisory body for the Pope in the Catholic Church
  • World Evangelical Alliance#General Assemblies

    • International organizations

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

    • National or sub-national legislatures

  • Confederate Ireland's parliament, during 1642-1649
  • Nova Scotia House of Assembly, provincial legislature of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia
  • Landsgemeinde, institution of direct democracy in some Swiss cantons

    • United States state legislatures

  • 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, lower house of the bicameral New Jersey Legislature
  • 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

    • Other uses

  • General assembly (Occupy movement), the primary decision making bodies of the global Occupy Movement which arose in 2011
  • General Assembly of Trans Europe Halles
  • General Assembly, a private for-profit education company.

    • References

    General assembly Wikipedia
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