b.few were read by anyone but the authors of those documents.
c.the documents spoke for the opinions of NOBODY but the private persons who wrote them.
Yeah, those are a real embarrassment for your side, aren't they? I can see why you want to distance yourself from them, what with all that talk about protecting slave property being the overwhelming reason for secession. But you're wrong when you say that they're documents with no standing. They were drafted by committees appointed by the secession conventions. They were debated, then adopted by the conventions with, apparently, unanimous votes. They are as legitimately a product of the conventions as the actual acts of secession were.