The Pennsylvania 4th Senatorial District is a senatorial district in the Pennsylvania State Senate. The district is home to about 650,000 people. The district includes Abington Township, Cheltenham Township, Jenkintown, Springfield, Rockledge, and part of Philadelphia. (Wards 50, 10, 9, 22, 59, 12, 17, and 49. The United States is a federal constitutional republic, in which the President of the United States (the head of state and head of government), Congress, and judiciary share powers reserved to the national government, and the federal government shares sovereignty with the state governments. The executive branch is headed by the President and is independent of the legislature. Legislative power is vested in the two chambers of Congress, the Senate and the House of Representatives.