Adjective : a self-executing treaty.    From Dictionary.com. 

This kind of rule is known as a 'self-executing rule.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rep. Alan Grayson: Funding the War: There Ought to Be a Rule Against This Kind of Rule] Reference

I am not sure as to your point about self-executing rules.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Would “Deem & Pass” Survive Judicial Review?] Reference

A self-executing rule should be read as political suicide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-03-01] Reference

The Treaty is self-executing, and will not require new legislation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transmittal To Congress On Treaty Between Us And Venezuela] Reference

Change on this level is never easy, and it is never self-executing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Force for Change Against Factory Farming] Reference

And it goes to the question of whether a treaty is self-executing or not.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2006] Reference

There is nothing in that provision that precludes the self-executing rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Bachmann Accuses The Media Of ‘Treason,’ Claims Use Of ‘Deem And Pass’ Warrants ‘Impeachment’] Reference

This amendment to the City Charter shall in all respects be self-executing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nathan Ive Making A Fool Of Himself] Reference

This provision of the City Charter shall in all respects be self-executing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nathan Ive Making A Fool Of Himself] Reference

Or is it that customary international law is both binding and self-executing?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit] Reference

So, jmunny, you just admitted that the self-executing rule is currently legal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » After Calling Self-Executing Rule Unconstitutional, Pence Admits He Previously Voted For It] Reference

(Not that I have any view of whether the ICCPR is self-executing.)yankee(Quote).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit] Reference

What type of legislation did the Republicans use the “self-executing rule” on?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 17, 2010] Reference

Why not go one step further and say that not all statutes are “self-executing?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit] Reference

THAROOR: That is extremely important, but these resolutions are not self-executing.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2003] Reference

There is nothing in that provision that says the self-executing rule is unconstitutional.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Bachmann Accuses The Media Of ‘Treason,’ Claims Use Of ‘Deem And Pass’ Warrants ‘Impeachment’] Reference

None of the blessings of our great American heritage of civil liberties is self-executing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Only Way to Make a Friend] Reference

Hylton, and I might add that both sides treated the language of the treaty as self-executing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit] Reference

The Convention and Protocol are self-executing, and will not require implementing legislation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Submission Of Treaty On Mutual Aid In Crime Matters] Reference

The previous use of the self-executing rule will come back and bite the Republicans in the @ss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Bachmann Accuses The Media Of ‘Treason,’ Claims Use Of ‘Deem And Pass’ Warrants ‘Impeachment’] Reference

Update Bachmann also attacked the potential use of a self-executing rule in a speech on Saturday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Bachmann: Americans ‘Have Standing To Sue’ If House Uses Self-Executing Rule To Pass Health Care] Reference

But later in the interview, Pence admitted that he had voted for self-executing rules in the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » After Calling Self-Executing Rule Unconstitutional, Pence Admits He Previously Voted For It] Reference

So is it your view that the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is self-executing?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit] Reference

But I also know that we filed a declaration that articles 1–27 of the ICCPR are not self-executing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit] Reference

The President proposed that the amendment should be self-executing, requiring no additional legislation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Testimony Before The U.S. House Committee On The Judiciary On The Proposed Victims Rights Constitutional Amendment] Reference

There is no precedent for the idea of self-executing devices that are ubiquitous, networked and always on.    From Wordnik.com.  [If All The World's A Computer...] Reference

It should be self-executing so that it takes effect as soon as it's ratified without additional legislation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presidents Remarks On Victims Rights] Reference

Even if it were a self-executing treaty, the document does not purport to serve as a source of private rights.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit] Reference

Actually, I neither agree or disagree with the legal arguments asserting that the treaty is not self-executing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit] Reference

If American domestic laws already “adequately protect those rights”, why not make the treaty self-executing?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit] Reference

A treaty is self-executing when it is automatically enforceable in domestic courts without implementing legislation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit] Reference

Defenders of the Democratic strategy say that a self-executing rule has been used many times before by both parties.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Constitutional Slaughter Solution?] Reference

But there's nothing here that's self-executing in terms of a Russia and Iraq arrangement or a Russia-Iraq understanding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Sandy Berger] Reference

That the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners are binding and self-executing despite not being a treaty?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit] Reference

If this is the case, then the language of this self-executing rule complies with the requirements of Article I, Section 7.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Constitutional Slaughter Solution?] Reference

Where a treaty is self-executing, as Simon notes, the court must do so as a matter of federal law and the Supremacy Clause.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The president has exceeded his constitutional authority by intruding into the independent powers of the judiciary."] Reference

“For any treaty to be susceptible to judicial enforcement it must both confer individual rights and be self-executing.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit] Reference

Martinned: If American domestic laws already “adequately protect those rights”, why not make the treaty self-executing?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit] Reference

I mean, there are some times when the law is not self-executing and, frankly, the courts don't want to mess with situations like this.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2008] Reference