Encyclopedia
General assembly
Index of articles associated with the same name
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:
01Churches
- 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
02International 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
03National 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
04Other 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
Sources and credits
This article is adapted from the Wikipedia article “General assembly”, written by its contributors and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Fathomly has changed the layout, removed citation markers, navigation and maintenance notices, and adjusted punctuation. This adapted version is shared under the same license. For references, see the original article.
Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- General meeting.jpg by Leon Brooks, Public domain
Fathomly is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Wikimedia Foundation. Spotted a problem? Tell us.
