High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Shareholder resolutions are proposals submitted by shareholders for a vote at the company's annual meeting. Typically, resolutions are opposed by the corporation's management, hence the insistence for a vote. For publicly-held corporations in the United States, the submission and handling of resolutions is regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). A shareholder resolution to protest napalm manufacturer Dow Chemical resulted in a landmark 1970 U.S. Court of Appeals decision to prod the SEC toward facilitating shareholder resolutions. Shareholders submit resolutions dealing primarily with corporate governance, such as executive compensation, or corporate social responsibility issues, such as global warming, labor relations, tobacco smoking, human rights, and animal welfare.