All rights and freedoms within the Charter provide for adequate protection of the individual's liberty and security. In the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke speculated about how politics must confront the issue "of freedom the will of the individual"(Locke, 43) and how their freedom must be subject to "constant, certain, and known principals"(Locke, 44), so that when conflicts of justifying rights emerge the government will have a guide by which to reference their decision against. For the purpose of arguing that majority rule can be reconciled with respect to individual's rights and freedoms, to be discussed here are situations where the majority has infringed upon the rights of the individual and how this infringement can be reconciled. Particular rights must be mentioned in order to explore the motives behind the reasoning of why majority rule may want to infringe on the individual, and the rights that are mentioned are not mentioned for the purpose of stating every right an individual has. First to be discussed are rights that protect individual's religion and ethnicity as examples to how the majority has discriminated against the individual. Rights that promote the rule of law, such as the right to life, liberty and security and the right to equality will be discussed second as examples to show how the government in the past has made itself deaf to the law and how this can be reconciled to protect the individual's liberty and security. When these rights and freedoms are recognized and protected within the Charter of Rights and Freedoms the individual's rights will be protected from the majority's rule. .
First, rights have been recognized in the Charter so that no religious group should ever have to fear that their religion will be subject to discrimination. A universal concept of what a religion is left open for individuals to frame their own definition, and since a universal definition has not been defined, many people find this grounds to discriminate against religions they do not consider, from their personal opinion, to be legitimate.