While national contract constitutions arise from an agreement among sovereign individuals.

Seung refers to this Faustian ideal as the ideal of the "sovereign individual."

What is a sovereign individual?

It is the seat of the self, the "sovereign individual" where democratic authority ultimately resides.

I am a sovereign individual; I'm not owned by any government.

Fried tends to press his philosophical claims too far, especially in asserting the autonomy and self-sufficiency of the sovereign individual.

Anarchists often argue for a specific individual kind of sovereignty, such as the Anarch as a sovereign individual.

Their protest affected themselves alone as sovereign individuals.

It's not that Parks doesn't have his head on straight: he hates trendy blather and values the sovereign individual above the tyrannical group.

Some of those in the movement consider the term "sovereign citizen" an oxymoron, preferring to view themselves as sovereign individuals "seeking the Truth".