Thomas Jefferson once said that he believed that "all of the good" of the new Constitution might have been accomplished by simply amendin the Articles of Consederation. Was it a good thing that the framers completely scrapped the Articles in favor of the Consitution? Focus on strucural differences between the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution especially in regard to specifiv powers granted to government, facotr that led to the "scrpping" of the Articles and fundmental differnces between the federalists and Anti federalists.