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.
Sectionalism was a big contributor because the north, south, and west were so different economically. Therefore, there was a struggle for power between these groups. There was also a balance of power in the legislative branch between slave and free states that each side was continuously trying to overcome by gaining more states of their orientation.