Question

Maryland Senate
How many members?
Term Limits?
Who can be a Senator?Write in 2 sentences each in a 5th graders response response









What are its limitations, compared to the national levels of Congress ( Maryland) ? Write in 2 sentences each in a 5th graders response response

Answer 1

How many members?
There are 47 members in the Maryland Senate. Each one represents a state senate district in Maryland.

Term limits?
Maryland state senators serve four-year terms. There are no term limits, so they can run again as many times as voters choose.

Who can be a Senator?
To be a Maryland state senator you must be at least 25 years old, a U.S. citizen, and a registered voter in Maryland. You also must have lived in Maryland for at least one year and in the district you want to represent for at least six months before the election.

What are its limitations compared to the U.S. Congress?
The Maryland Senate cannot make treaties or declare war; those are powers for the national government. The state senate also cannot print money or control national taxes—only the U.S. Congress does that.

Laws passed by the Maryland Senate only affect people and businesses inside Maryland. Rules about trade between states or with other countries are made by the U.S. Congress, not the state senate.

If a federal law conflicts with a Maryland law, the federal law wins. Maryland senators cannot change federal laws or the U.S. Constitution.