All law stems from the absolute power of an entity or state.
Jaywalking "may not be punishable by death" - but telling the court to shove their fine up their ass results in forced detainment and public service… And denying that will require you to sufficiently convince the State that their laws do not apply to you by vanquishing all attempts to enforce it.
So, you know, unless you plan to Grand Theft Auto your way through life while not having any respawn when you die… Then all laws, no matter how seemingly insignificant, stem from the power the State has to kill you should you oppose its authority.
If you can just tell the State to fuck off, then the law doesn't apply. If all anyone has to do is push the issue to the point where the State isn't willing to kill you over it, then you win. For law to exist, the penalty of death - or removal - must exist. It is this process of recognition which gives rise to 'natural law' and, by extension, our rights as citizens. Even the State is subject to laws bound up in the expression of its citizens' nature. Any time a State adopts certain policies, it begins to decline and invites revolution. This is where the concept of limited powers comes from - the recognition that human nature represents a law as indisputable as gravity. All states must comply with our nature just as all people must comply with the concept of a state, no matter how its borders and members are defined.
Even a person who chooses revolt is in compliance with the concept, just as a state falling to some revolution or another is, also, in compliance with our nature. The distinction is conscious choice versus stimulus response.