Debarment is the state of being excluded from enjoying certain possessions, rights, privileges, or practices and the act of prevention by legal means.
For example, companies can be debarred from contracts due to allegations of fraud, mismanagement, and similar improprieties.
In cross-debarment, organizations and agencies agree to mutually exclude others based on debarment by affiliates.
Another constitutional issue raised was double jeopardy, it being argued that persons who had been tried, convicted, and sentenced to a particular punishment by a court of law could not be further penalized for the same offense.
The courts rejected these arguments based on the finding that debarment was not intended as a punishment but rather as a means of protecting the public from persons who had exhibited the capacity for engaging in such conduct.