Once they took aim at a company, they bought the minimum number of shares that would allow them to submit resolutions at that company's annual shareholder meeting.
Biddulph said that 32 states submitted resolutions for a balanced budget convention by the late 1980s, but after Ohio voted down a resolution, states started to withdraw.
Critics investigated or submitted resolutions of impeachment against James Buchanan, Ulysses Grant and Herbert Hoover.
"We have submitted a resolution that would place limits on landings from ships carrying large numbers of tourists".
On Wednesday, Obama submitted a resolution that would allow for military action against ISIS for the next three years and place some limits on the use of ground troops; despite these restrictions, the resolution would grant Obama wide latitude to prosecute the war against ISIS.
At the 1967 National Conference for New Politics in Chicago, Shulamith Firestone and Jo Freeman submitted a resolution that would still be controversial today: they wanted marriage and property laws to be more equal, women to have control over their own bodies and to be represented to the strength of 51% on the conference floor.
The next morning, Conkling then submitted a resolution that bound every delegate in the hall to support the party's nominee.
The Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization, have also drawn ire, with G. Oliver Koppell, a first-term member who represents the Riverdale section of the Bronx, submitting a resolution that calls upon the United States government to declare them terrorist organizations and to close the Authority's New York office.
Its work is carried out in six specialist committees, which draw up draft opinions and resolutions that are then submitted for adoption in plenary.
Negotiations over the Security Council resolution were initially contentious, as the U.S., the UK, and France submitted a draft resolution that included automatic invocation of Chapter VII, sanctioning use of military force if Syria did not fulfill its commitments under the agreement.
Section 165 of the Dodd-Frank Act requires large bank holding companies to submit "resolution plans" —popularly known as living wills — that show how these companies can be resolved if they fail in a bankruptcy court like every other business.
