It depends.
If it is in the north American / English culture the Magna Carta is the basis for its codification and injection into the culture’s infrastructure.
Muslims never experienced the reformation of the church and the birth of Individual rights.... and it is this that has kept them out of modern man’s loop and trapped in the 7th century as barbarians.
Actually, not so much.
Most of our current problems are precisely because the concept of majority rule has won out over the premise of individual liberty. Democrats don't even give a head nod to individual liberty anymore — its all about group rights.