Question

create a three-column chart

Case Court Responsible Jurisdiction Type
Students must also write 1–2 sentences explaining their reasoning for three cases.

Answer 1

Here’s a simple three-column chart you can use. Below the chart I include 1–2 sentence explanations for three of the cases.

Case | Court Responsible | Jurisdiction Type
--- | --- | ---
Marbury v. Madison (1803) | U.S. Supreme Court | Federal — judicial review / constitutional
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) | U.S. Supreme Court | Federal — equal protection / constitutional (appellate)
Miranda v. Arizona (1966) | U.S. Supreme Court | Federal — criminal procedure / constitutional (appellate)
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) | U.S. Supreme Court | Federal — right to counsel / constitutional (appellate)
United States v. Nixon (1974) | U.S. Supreme Court | Federal — executive privilege / constitutional (appellate)
Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) | U.S. Supreme Court | Federal — due process / equal protection / constitutional (appellate)

Students’ 1–2 sentence explanations (examples)

1. Marbury v. Madison — The U.S. Supreme Court is responsible because the case raised a federal constitutional question about the limits of Congress’s ability to expand the Court’s original jurisdiction; the decision established judicial review when the Court declared a statute unconstitutional.
2. Miranda v. Arizona — The Supreme Court decided this because it involved a federal constitutional issue (Fifth Amendment protections during custodial interrogation), so the Court exercised appellate jurisdiction to set a national rule for police procedure.
3. Brown v. Board of Education — The Court handled this matter as a federal constitutional question under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause; as the highest appellate court, it resolved whether state-sponsored segregation violated federal constitutional rights.

If you want, I can (a) expand the chart with state- and lower-court examples, (b) convert this to a printable worksheet, or (c) give three different cases for students to explain. Which would you prefer?