How Enterprise could be reconciled with carrier limits

If the treaty system had survived, how could the United States build Enterprise without openly violating its allowance?

It would probably apply an escalator clause to the carrier category.

The question imagines the treaty system surviving while the United States proceeds with Enterprise. Washington would likely justify the ship through an escalator clause applied to aircraft carriers. That would preserve the legal architecture while acknowledging that the existing allowance no longer matched strategic demands. The exchange shows how treaty systems could adapt categories and ceilings rather than immediately collapse over one ship.