America's birthright sold if president's judiciary plan is accepted. Washington, D.C., April 1. Attacking the president's judiciary plan, Dean Harry M. Bates of the Michigan Law School, declared before the Committee that if the plan is accepted America might find she had sold National birthright for an immediate gain leading toward a change in our form of government to english parliamentary system. Senator Ashurst, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee before whom Bates appeared, was a student in his law class at Michigan in 1903, 4/1/1937