ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses more specifically on limits imposed on fundamental rights in social representations. Legal aspects of these limits will not be analysed; what is of interest here is how they are conceived of in the common conscience, how these conceptions vary and how these variations can be explained. In this sense, one aspect of issues raised in the previous chapter will be studied more systematically; in paricular the hiatus between the general adherence to principles and the frequent tolerance of practices violating them will be analysed.
