General Assembly - Sub-national Legislatures in The United States, Canada or Switzerland

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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