What was Socrates criticism of democracy?

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http://www.allanstime.com/Government/socrates_democracy.htm
Is it that Socrates wanted people to improve and that power wealth or pleasure is not what he urged? Is this a good answer? Is the answer wrong?
That is a very bad answer. WRong. Off the mark.
<<. Socrates openly taught that the principal fault of democracy was that it did not require proof of special knowledge in its leaders, that it surrendered the direction of the people’s destinies to men without adequate experience in government, and that on the question of the morality of justice of a policy it treated the opinions of all citizens as equal in value.>>
What does the veneration of laws mean?
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/veneration
http://www.answers.com/veneration
Why do you believe that the United States borrowed the classic style of architecture developed by the Greeks for the buildings that house the government?
In Colonial America and after the new nation was formed, the founding fathers in all the colonies/states were usually highly educated men ... and being highly educated meant they had studied lots of Latin and Greek literature and ideas. Thus there was great influence by the Greek and Roman cultures on colonial and early US ideas, art, architecture, etc.