Over the years Congress has passed legislation like the "GI Bill of Rights."

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After the war, he used the GI Bill of Rights to earn a degree from New York University and a law degree from St.

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Conceptually, it is no different than the federal government's Pell Grants that provide money to college-bound students for tuition or the GI Bill of Rights that did the same thing for millions of veterans.

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By the judge's reckoning, the GI Bill of Rights, which provided scholarship money for WWII vets to go to the colleges of their choice, was unconstitutional because vets were free to use the money to pay tuition at religious-oriented institutions.

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