Who were the authors?
"the people of South Carolina, by our delegates, in Convention assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions"
"The people of Georgia having dissolved their political connection with the Government of the United States of America, present to their confederates and the world the causes which have led to the separation."
"We the delegates of the people of Texas, in Convention assembled"
The secession conventions were conventions of the people, and the acts and statements issued by those conventions must, if we take them at their word and accept what they believed at the time, be acts and statements of the people.