1. La Base Legal: Poderes Corporativos vs. Derechos.
El argumento principal es que la decisión de Citizens United se centró en los "derechos" de las corporaciones, pero los estados tienen la autoridad soberana para definir los "poderes" que otorgan a las corporaciones creadas bajo sus leyes.
- States dont have to grant corporations the power to spend in politics. In fact, they could decide not to give corporations that power. This isnt about corporate rights, as the supreme court determined in citizens united. Its about corporate powers.
- In american law, corporations are creatures of state laws. The power to define their form, limits, and privilege has belonged only to the states. States dont have to grant corporations the power to spend in politics.
- When a state exercises its authority to define corporations as entities without the power to spend in politics, it will no longer be relevant whether corporations have a right to spend in politics because without the power to do so, the right to do so has no meaning.
2. La Iniciativa de Montana: El Modelo a Seguir.
Montana está liderando el camino con una iniciativa constitucional propuesta para negar explícitamente a todas las corporaciones el poder de gastar en elecciones, buscando anular las consecuencias del fallo federal a nivel estatal.
- Local mt organizers have drafted submitted a constitutional initiative for voters to consider in 2026 decline to grant to all corporations the power to spend in elections most of your governors state legislators havent realized that you have the authority to make citizens united irrelevant.
- The montana plan to undo the impact of citizens united by harnessing our sovereign power over corporate charters, we can lead a state-by-state march that finally sidelines dark money everywhere.
- How to get rid of citizens united in montana, local organizers have drafted and submitted a constitutional initiative for voters to consider in 2026 the first step in a movement built to spread nationwide. It would decline to grant to all corporations the power to spend in elections.
3. El Mecanismo de Aplicación Estatal.
Se propone una redacción específica para las leyes corporativas estatales que eliminaría el poder de gasto político, y se señala que una ley estatal afectaría a corporaciones de otros estados que deseen hacer negocios allí.
- Every corporation operating under the laws of this state has all the corporate powers it held previously, except that nothing in this statute grants or recognizes any power to engage in election activity or ballot-issue activity.
- Importantly, a state that no longer grants its corporations the power to spend in elections also denies that power to corporations chartered in the other 49 states, if they wish to do business in that state.
- Delawares corporation code already declines to grant private foundations the power to spend in elections. A state that no longer grants its corporations the power to spend in elections also denies that power to corporations chartered in the other states, if they wish to do business in that state.
4. El Impacto Deseado: Devolver el Poder al Pueblo.
El objetivo final de esta estrategia estatal es revertir la influencia de los "multimillonarios" y el "dinero oscuro" en la política, devolviendo el poder de decisión a los ciudadanos.
- End citizen united so we the people have the power, not the billionaires who have abused this law to the hilt. End citizens united.
- Corporations and dark money groups spent 4.2 billion to buy politicians in 2024. Compare this to the 140 million they spent in 2008. We can thank the supreme court and citizens united for this fact.
- Our democracy belongs to the people, not billionaires and special interests. End dark money, stop corporations from buying influence, put power back where it belongs with voters, not the highest bidder!