I do not know where this false idea comes from. We have surrendered no freedoms (please show me where I am wrong). We have delegated "powers" not "rights/freedoms" to the State.
Tyrannical government tries to convince us that the "common good" requires that we "give up some rights." Nonsense and a demonstrably false proposition.
The Supreme Court has ruled numerous times (do the search), that the State has no obligation to provide any individual with protection. It is reprehensible when States ban the keeping and bearing arms and then abrogate any responsibility in protecting its disarmed "subjects". see California and other liberal held hell holes.
We are armed citizens capable of supplying our own protection and can do a much better job than the State who is at best "minutes away" when "seconds are critical".
How would you define a “social contract” that doesn’t involve individuals, in some manner, agreeing not to go vigilante when wronged by another in favor of a third party representative of the law to adjudicate the event? Are you saying that there is no social contract wherein natural law rights are not sublimated to prevent anarchy? Are not powers dependent upon rights? I think we are on the same page but arguing semantics.