Why many people believe that the british won the american revolution

Explanation:

I wonder who believes that? Cornwallis surrendered. Doesn't that mean the British lost? And we are talking just about the war of independence and not some of the economic consequences, I hope.

social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons' moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live