The case reached the Supreme Court which eventually decided on his disqualification from office.

The maximum penalty the Panel may impose is five years' disqualification from office.

Bennet was fined £20,000, but punishments of imprisonment and disqualification from office were later lifted.

A TORY county councillor will not be standing for re-election next month because he fears his business affairs could lead to his disqualification from office.

He found the Fourteenth Amendment's final provisions, with a limited disqualification from office for some former Confederates, deeply disappointing, but accepted it as the best terms possible.

Justice See, who lost the primary and now faces the possibility of disqualification from office before the end of his term as an associate justice, has said he did nothing improper.

All public officials were to swear an oath of loyalty to the monarch as the supreme governor or risk disqualification from office; the heresy laws were repealed, to avoid a repeat of the persecution of dissenters practised by Mary.

For example, with reference to the punishments of "stripes" and disqualification from office, Currie argues that: "These provisions suggest not only that Congress viewed neither of these punishments as cruel and unusual, but also that they did not understand impeachment to be the sole avenue for the future disqualification of current officeholders."