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For other uses, see General Assembly (disambiguation).

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

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
• General Assembly of Nova Scotia, the legislature of that Canadian province
• General Assembly of Uruguay, the national legislature of Uruguay
• General Assembly of the Empire of Brazil, parliament of the Empire of Brazil

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
• New York General Assembly (historical colonial)
• 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 (horse), American throughbred racehorse
• General assembly (Occupy movement), the primary decision-making bodies of the global Occupy Movement which arose in 2011
• General Assembly (school), a private for-profit education company
• General Assembly, a fictional international council from the browser game NationStates

See also

• Annual general meeting
• Popular assembly, a gathering called to address issues of importance to participants
• ICCA Congress & Exhibition, the annual meeting of the International Congress and Convention Association
• Conference
• Assembly (disambiguation)
• Landsgemeinde, institution of direct democracy in some Swiss cantons
• All pages with titles beginning with General Assembly