The Transfiguration of the Common Man/Woman

Is it we who are active subjugates of our societies, or is a society's purpose to serve toward our benefit? This question begins where all similar questions begin; in the "state of nature". But has that state ever been agreed upon. The creation of this theoretical past is always forged into the shape of the desired gains of the future.
This is where the notion of the power to suspend the societal agreements concerning it structure and boundary should be confronted -if not all out demolished. While this discussion has been taken up at great length elsewhere, it is not too simplistic to state: the moment that the societal pact is breached, is the concurrent moment to which all obligation to that societal pact is superseded by natural sovereignty. Here, as in all contractual legal obligations, both parties are only culpable in that both parties or diligent in their portion of the contract.
Extra-legal action does not inherently prove validity of power; it negates it.