%0 Artículo (Article) %A Maldonado Muñoz, Mauricio %I Departamento de Derecho Constitucional %D 2020 %G Español (Spanish) %T Limits and essential content of rights (A problematic conceptual framework) %U https://revistas.uexternado.edu.co/index.php/derest/article/view/6761 %X The so-called theories of the limits of fundamental rights, in their two variants – theory of external limits and theory of internal limits – in their usual formulations, as well as the so-called theories of the essential content of fundamental rights – absolute theory, relative theory, and non-restriction theory – although they are widely shared and cited, they present several problems. From an analytical point of view, these theories do not offer a stable conceptual framework or one that serves to reconstruct effective practice in fundamental rights cases.