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.
Transcript of Effects of the dred Scott decision on sectionalism & the sec. Sectionalism. The Dred Scott case decision was one of the biggest reasons that the South seceded. While the South wanted to eep their slaves, the north wanted to set those slaves free and make them citizens.