General assembly

General assembly (see popular assembly) may refer to an official meeting of the members of a trade union, church, association, or similar organization, or of their representatives, in particular:

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

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
  • 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 official name of the lower house of one state legislature in the United States
  • New Jersey General Assembly in the bicameral New Jersey Legislature

Also:

• 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 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, is the umbrella organisation for Unitarian, Free Christian and other liberal religious congregations in the United Kingdom
• The General Assembly (Unitarian Universalist Association), is an annual gathering of Unitarian Universalists of the Unitarian Universalist Association
  • See also List of Christian denominations#Presbyterian and Reformed Churches

Other uses:

• General Assembly (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
• General assembly (Occupy movement)
• ICCA Congress & Exhibition