After the 1936 election, Roosevelt sought passage of the Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937 (the 'court packing plan'), which would have expanded the size of the Supreme Court of the United States. When Roosevelt began his run for a second term in May 1930, he reiterated his doctrine from the campaign two years before: 'that progressive government by its very terms must be a living and growing thing, that the battle for it is never-ending and that if we let up for one single moment or one single year, not merely do we stand still but we fall back in the march of civilization.'