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For us, what mattered was never whether he did it.

What mattered was that millions of people around the world believed he did. And they loved him for it.

Luigi Mangione was immediately embraced as a hero across America, as if the fallen CEO of the largest health insurance company in the US were the real criminal in a much larger crime; as if the bullets had deposed a tyrant.

Depose is not an argument for killing. It is an inquiry into what that explosion of support reveals: a common sense of justice with the potential to transform America’s future — and even its past.

Our inquiry proceeds in three parts, each of which takes its name from the words found on bullet casings on the morning of December 4, 2024.

They Delay Universal Healthcare.

Part I begins with the note found in a backpack in Altoona, Pennsylvania, which has been called “Luigi’s Manifesto.” We follow the thread from its few words, unravelling a larger crime scene that accounts for why for-profit health insurance is the target of such profound rage across the political spectrum. We then turn to the question of why universal healthcare has been endlessly delayed in the United States, where we find a fault line running through the American conception of government itself.

Part I. Delay

Chapter 1
Who Gets to Draw the Boundary Around a Crime Scene?
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Chapter 2
The Dilemma of State Healthcare in America

Conclusion
The Miracle of St. Luigi

They Deny the Right to Health.

Part II takes us into the idea of a “right to health.” After clarifying what it means, we discover that we have a natural right to health. This correction of our understanding of natural rights opens up a whole new perspective, which we illustrate by tracing the struggle to assert the right to health across the American Revolution.

Part II. Deny

Chapter 3
A Right to Healthcare... or the Right to Health?

Chapter 4
The Case of the Disappearing Right to Health

Chapter 5
American Revolutionary Crimes

Conclusion
A Treatise on Natural Rights and Natural Crimes

They Must be Deposed.

Part III works out the implications of this shift in perspective for the struggle for universal healthcare. If health is a natural right, then universal healthcare is continuous with a much older historical task in America. Pursuing universal healthcare is not a matter of asking the government for something, but of asserting popular sovereignty — the power of the people to nullify unjust law and create a new legal order. We offer a vision for how this might occur that is, at the very least, different from what has been proposed before.

Part III. Depose

Chapter 6
Abolish Parasitism

Chapter 7
Nullify Unjust Law

Chapter 8
Constitute New Law

Conclusion
The Counterrevolution is Failing

Depose: Luigi Mangione, the Right to Health, and the Unfinished American Revolution

By The December 4 Legal Committee

Release date: October 13, 2026

Ill Will Editions | 360pp.

ISBN: 979-8-9997930-7-2

Cover Art by Dianna Settles

100% of all author royalties are donated to grassroots healthcare initiatives and Luigi Mangione's official legal fund until he is free.

Published by Ill Will Editions

Distributed by The MIT Press