General Assembly
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The term general assembly can refer to
- The largest unit of organisation in the polity of a (national) Presbyterian church, containing several synods or presbyteries. Such as:
- *General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
- The General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, representing Unitarian churches in the United Kingdom.
- The annual General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations in the United States
- The name of the legislature or lower house of the legislature in several U.S. states, including—
- *Colorado General Assembly
- *Connecticut General Assembly
- *Delaware General Assembly
- *Georgia General Assembly
- *Indiana General Assembly
- *Iowa General Assembly
- *Kentucky General Assembly
- *Maryland 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 name of the legislature in the former British colonies in North America.
- A General Assembly (or meeting) of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, the unicameral provincial legislature
- The General Assembly of the New Zealand Parliament - the former name for the combined upper and lower houses of parliament and the Governor-General of New Zealand.
- The general assembly or landsgemeinde of all citizens used as an institution of direct democracy in some Swiss cantons.
- The United Nations General Assembly
- The General Assembly of the Organization of American States
- The FIA General Assembly
- Generally, an official session of the members, or representative members, of a union, church, association, or similar organization.
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