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
- 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
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
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