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“Move to Amend applauds the Transparent Election Initiative and hopes organizers collect enough signatures for the measure to qualify for the ballot — and that it passes in November 2026.
The Initiative represents an important democratic step forward, both culturally and legally. Culturally, it helps revive an awareness that was well understood by those early in our nation’s history: that people and the representatives they elect were meant to be superior to the corporate entities created under state law. Corporations were not originally institutions to be pleaded with, hoped for, or negotiated with; they were legal tools defined and authorized by state legislatures to obey the law, meet basic obligations, and serve the public good. As public officials seeking to maintain democratic control over corporations often put it, “The time has not yet arrived when the created is greater than the creator.”
The Montana Plan brings renewed attention to ideas that have long been overshadowed by modern corporate culture. At the very least, the Initiative offers a valuable educational opportunity for people in other states to learn more about the history and potential of corporate charters (both their issuance and their revocation) as democratic tools that belong in our collective civic toolkit, regardless of the eventual outcome of the Montana ballot measure.
Legally, the Transparent Election Initiative, if passed in Montana, would be an incredibly positive democratic contribution to reducing corporate power in our elections and, by extension, society. That’s why Move to Amend supporters in Montana support the plan, which we support wholeheartedly”
