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.
Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: sectional(adj) a piece of furniture made up of sections that can be arranged individually or together. sectional(adj) relating to or based upon a section (i.e. as if cut through by an intersecting plane)