Instead, the task of safeguarding the nine justices falls to the Supreme Court Police, a 125-person force that's also charged with securing the court building and grounds.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In national politics, sectionalism is loyalty to the interests of one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole. It is often a precursor to separatism. 1 In the United Kingdom.
Between the War of 1812 and the Civil War, a time known as the Antebellum period, the United States encountered a crisis of sectionalism as the nation divided politically, economically, ideologically, and geographically. Northern and Southern states divided over several issues, but the main one was slavery.