A general assembly or general meeting is a meeting of all the members of an
organization
An organization or organisation (English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English; American and British English spelling differences#-ise, -ize (-isation, -ization), see spelling differences) is an legal entity, entity—such as ...
or
shareholder
A shareholder (in the United States often referred to as stockholder) of corporate stock refers to an individual or legal entity (such as another corporation, a body politic, a trust or partnership) that is registered by the corporation as the ...
s of a company.
Specific examples of general assembly include:
Churches
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General Assembly (presbyterian church)
Presbyterian (or presbyteral) polity is a method of church governance (" ecclesiastical polity") typified by the rule of assemblies of presbyters, or elders. Each local church is governed by a body of elected elders usually called the session ...
, the highest court of presbyterian polity
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General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, highest court of the Church of Scotland
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General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, highest court of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland
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General Assembly (Unitarian Universalist Association), annual gathering of Unitarian Universalists of the Unitarian Universalist Association
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General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, umbrella organisation for Unitarian, Free Christian and other religious congregations in the United Kingdom
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General Ordinary Assembly, advisory body for the Pope in the Catholic Church
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International organizations
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FIA General Assembly, an international motor-racing organization
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General Assembly of the Organization of American States, the main body of the OAS
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United Nations General Assembly
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; , AGNU or AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as its main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ. Currently in its Seventy-ninth session of th ...
, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations
National or sub-national legislatures
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Confederate Ireland's parliament, during 1642–1649
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General Assembly of Nova Scotia, the legislature of that Canadian province
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General Assembly of Uruguay, the national legislature of Uruguay
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General Assembly of the Empire of Brazil,
parliament
In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: Representation (politics), representing the Election#Suffrage, electorate, making laws, and overseeing ...
of the
Empire of Brazil
The Empire of Brazil was a 19th-century state that broadly comprised the territories which form modern Brazil and Uruguay until the latter achieved independence in 1828. The empire's government was a Representative democracy, representative Par ...
United States state legislatures
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Arkansas General Assembly
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Colorado General Assembly
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Connecticut General Assembly
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Delaware General Assembly
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Georgia General Assembly
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Illinois General Assembly
The Illinois General Assembly is the legislature of the U.S. state of Illinois. It has two chambers, the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate. The General Assembly was created by the first state constitution adopted in ...
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Indiana General Assembly
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Iowa General Assembly
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Kentucky General Assembly
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Maryland General Assembly
The Maryland General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland that convenes within the State House in Annapolis. It is a bicameral body: the upper chamber, the Maryland Senate, has 47 representatives, and the lower ...
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Missouri General Assembly
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New Jersey General Assembly, lower house of the bicameral New Jersey Legislature
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New York General Assembly
The General Assembly of New York, commonly known internationally as the New York General Assembly, and domestically simply as General Assembly, was the Parliamentary sovereignty, supreme Legislature, legislative body of the Province of New York d ...
(historical colonial)
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North Carolina General Assembly
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Ohio General Assembly
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Pennsylvania General Assembly
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Rhode Island General Assembly
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South Carolina General Assembly
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Tennessee General Assembly
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Vermont General Assembly
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Virginia General Assembly
The Virginia General Assembly is the legislative body of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the oldest continuous law-making body in the Western Hemisphere, and the first elected legislative assembly in the New World. It was established on July 30, ...
Other uses
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General Assembly (horse), American throughbred racehorse
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General assembly (Occupy movement), the primary decision-making bodies of the global Occupy Movement which arose in 2011
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General Assembly (school), a private for-profit education company
* General Assembly, a fictional international council from the browser game
NationStates
See also
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Annual general meeting
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Popular assembly, a gathering called to address issues of importance to participants
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ICCA Congress & Exhibition, the annual meeting of the International Congress and Convention Association
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Conference
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Assembly (disambiguation)
Assembly may refer to:
Organisations and meetings
* Deliberative assembly, a gathering of members who use parliamentary procedure for making decisions
* General assembly, an official meeting of the members of an organization or of their represent ...
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Landsgemeinde, institution of direct democracy in some Swiss cantons
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