The Constitution of the Confederacy of Independent People is the supreme law of the Confederacy, as adopted on October 1, 2008. The Confederacy also operates under a Provisional Constitution.. In regard to most articles of the Constitution, the document is a word-for-word duplicate of the United States Constitution. The major differences between the two constitutions is the Confederacy's greater emphasis on the rights of individual members and the right to express free speech without restriction, no matter how offensive.