What are the similarities and differences? http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/construct has fewer entries than http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/construction, but many of them are alike? Can construction be used below, for example?
Source: p 39, The English Legal System 2012-2013, Gary Slapper
… The classic account
given by Dicey of the doctrine of the supremacy of Parliament, pure and
absolute as it was, can now be seen to be out of place in the modern United
Kingdom. Nevertheless, the supremacy of Parliament is still the general
principle of our constitution. It is a construct of the common law. The judges
created this principle. If that is so, it is not unthinkable that circumstances
could arise where the courts may have to qualify a principle established on a
different hypothesis of constitutionalism.
Best Answer
Construction would not be used here because in legal contexts the construction of a law usually means the interpretation of a law (sense 2.1 in your link, a sense associated not with the ordinary modern sense of construct but with the cognate verb construe) and to use construction would lead readers to expect that sense.