The California Land Act of 1851 (9 Stat. 631), enacted following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the admission of California as a state in 1850, established a three-member Public Land Commission to determine the validity of prior Spanish and Mexican land grants.
The Articles of Confedaration failed because they were set up to make the Federal Govdernment as weak as possible. The Articles of Confederation also lacked a bill of rights.
