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Jurisdictional shapefiles are publicly available on the Census.gov website.  Clicking into 2014, I found an FTP link with several folders to peruse.

![alt](https://s3.amazonaws.com/afomi/images/embeds/jurisdictional/census-website.png)

After finding and downloading the .shp files, I uploaded them to Amazon S3. From S3, the .shapefiles can be imported into Geoserver as a "Store".

![alt](https://s3.amazonaws.com/afomi/images/embeds/jurisdictional/geoserver-stores.png)

Similar to Stores, Geoserver allows a Store to be published as a Layer.  Publishing is important so the shapefiles can be displayed on a map and queried to produce API results as XML or JSON.

![alt](https://s3.amazonaws.com/afomi/images/embeds/jurisdictional/geoserver-layers.png)

Here is a small sample of Geoserver JSON response.

![alt](https://s3.amazonaws.com/afomi/images/embeds/jurisdictional/json-coordinates.png)

Here is a full sample of Geoserver JSON response with coordinates nodes collapsed.

![alt](https://s3.amazonaws.com/afomi/images/embeds/jurisdictional/json-features.png)

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