This referendum in Montana is going to redefine what it means to be a corporation, and what corporations can and can't do in Montana.
The SCOTUS ruling - called "Citizens United" - gave corporations the same freedom of speech rights that citizens have, and that includes supporting political campaigns. However individual states, namely Montana and others, seek to clarify those free speech rights. If the people of Montana decide in their referendum that corporations never had the right to make donations to political campaigns, they will in effect have nullified the Citizens United ruling in their state.
I'm not a lawyer and I don't play one on TV. But sometimes I learn things when I read Robert Reich's columns that explain stuff like this.
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