This coming Saturday and Sunday, the Republican presidential candidates will face off in two nationally-televised debates on the eve of the New Hampshire primary. In each debate, people from across the country have the opportunity to submit questions to be asked of the candidates. We should seize this opportunity to ensure that the question of corporate personhood and corporate spending in our elections becomes part of the presidential debate.

• On Friday, December 30, the Montana Supreme Court upheld a century-old state law banning corporate money in elections. The court ruled that the state had the right to prohibit corporate expenditures in the political process to protect democracy. Do you agree with the Montana Supreme Court?

• In January 2010, the United States Supreme Court issued a 5-4 ruling in Citizens United v. FEC stating that corporations are people and have the First Amendment right to spend their corporate general treasury funds in our elections. The ruling, which swept away a century of precedent, has led to an onslaught of hundreds of millions of corporate dollars into our political process. Do you support a constitutional amendment to overturn that ruling and to make clear that corporations are not people with constitutional rights?

• Do you think corporations should be treated as people with the right to spend their corporate general treasury funds in our elections? A narrow majority of the US Supreme Court ruled two years ago that corporations should be treated as people with that right, but just last week the Montana Supreme Court challenged that ruling and upheld a century-old state law banning corporate money in elections. Is the Montana Supreme Court right?