The assembly acted surprisingly quickly, after just two days of consideration and with little debate.
The partition plan for Palestine was one of the UN general assembly's first acts in 1947.
In response, the Kentucky General Assembly passed an act that granted debtors a grace period of two years in repaying their debts unless their creditors would accept payment in the devalued notes of the Bank of the Commonwealth.
That move will however require approval from the South Carolina general assembly under the state's Heritage Act.
The board of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) voted to move our 2017 general assembly from Indianapolis in response to Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).
The working group has sent this clear message to the general assembly, where governments must now muster the courage to act on behalf of humanity's future.
The general assembly elected a number of the leading men to act as judges, and these judges traveled through the villages to hear private suits.
In 1993, the United Nations general assembly defined violence against women as any act of gender-based violence that causes physical or psychological harm to women.
The general assembly has the opportunity to move us towards this critical goal.
Blood and organ donation is a Christian duty and congregations should be encouraged to act, a motion to a three-day general assembly of the Church of England says.
In 1746 an act was passed by the general assembly of New York to raise funds for the foundation of a new college.
