the section states that azerbaijan ssr is a sovereign state." however, the limits of the sovereignty of the azerbaijan ssr are set to the authority of the supreme bodies of the ussr and the transcaucasian sfsr. the same article extends this sovereignty to the right of free withdrawal from the transcaucasian socialist federative soviet republic. this statement itself is contradictory to the constitution of the transcaucasian sfsr and the ussr, on which the only way of the withdrawal of the republic was by territorial and border changes, and these matters were administered by the supreme bodies of the ussr.